I Have No Feud, Either With My

We Will Not Be Driven By Fear Into An Age Of Unreason, If We Dig Deep In Our History And Our Doctrine, And Remember That We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men ... We Proclaim Ourselves, As Indeed We Are, The Defenders Of Freedom, Wherever It Continues To Exist In The World, But We Cannot Defend Freedom Abroad By Deserting It At Home.

This Instrument [radio] Can Teach. It Can Illuminate, Yes, And It Can Even Inspire. But It Can Do So Only To The Extent That Humans Are Determined To Use It To Those Ends. Otherwise It's Nothing But Wires And Lights In A Box.

I Have Said, And I Believe, That Potentially We Have In This Country A Free Enterprise System Of Radio And Television Which Is Superior To Any Other. But To Achieve Its Promise, It Must Be Both Free And Enterprising. There Is No Suggestion Here That Networks Or Individual Stations Should Operate As Philanthropies. But I Can Find Nothing In The Bill Of Rights Or In The Communications Act Which Says That They Must Increase Their Net Profits Each Year, Lest The Republic Collapse.

Of This Be Wary. Honor And Fame Are Often Regarded As Interchangeable. Both Involve An Appraisal Of The Individual. . . But I Suggest This Difference. Fame Is Morally Neutral.

We Must Not Confuse Dissent With Disloyalty. We Must Remember Always That Accusation Is Not Proof And That Conviction Depends Upon Evidence And Due Process Of Law. We Will Not Walk In Fear, One Of Another. We Will Not Be Driven By Fear Into An Age Of Unreason, If We Dig Deep In Our History And Our Doctrine, And Remember That We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men – Not From Men Who Feared To Write, To Speak, To Associate, And To Defend Causes That Were, For The Moment, Unpopular.