Nations Do Not Distrust Each Other Because

What Would This Country Be Without This Great Land Of Ours.

Freedom And The Dignity Of The Individual Have Been More Available And Assured Here Than In Any Other Place On Earth. The Price For This Freedom At Times Has Been High, But We Have Never Been Unwilling To Pay The Price.

Sometimes When I'm Faced With An Atheist, I Am Tempted To Invite Him To The Greatest Gourmet Dinner That One Could Ever Serve, And When We Have Finished Eating That Magnificent Dinner, To Ask Him If He Believes There's A Cook.

Our Nation Was Built And Civilized By Men And Women Who Used Guns In Self-defense And In Pursuit Of Peace. One Wonders Indeed, If The Rising Crime Rate, Isn't Due As Much As Anything To The Criminal's Instinctive Knowledge That The Average Victim No Longer Has Means Of Self-protection.

The Pursuit Of Science, The Study Of The Great Works, The Value Of Free Inquiry, In Short, The Very Idea Of Living The Life Of The Mind - Yes, These Formative And Abiding Principles Of Higher Education In America Had Their First And Firmest Advocate, And Their Greatest Embodiment, In A Tall, Fair-headed, Friendly Man Who Watched This University Take Form From The Mountainside Where He Lived, The University Whose Founding He Called A Crowning Achievement To Along And Well-spent Life.