Preparedness Is The Key To Success And

Whether In Chains Or In Laurels, Liberty Knows Nothing But Victories.

Nobody Grows Old By Merely Living A Number Of Years. People Grow Old Only By Deserting Their Ideals. Years May Wrinkle The Skin, But To Give Up Interest Wrinkles The Soul. Worry, Doubt, Self-distrust, Fear And Despair; These Are The Long, Long Years That Bow The Head And Turn The Growing Spirit Back To Dust. Whatever Your Years, There Is In Every Being's Heart The Love Of Wonder, The Undaunted Challenge Of Events, The Unfailing Childlike Appetite For What Next, And The Joy And The Game Of Life.

Here Are Centered The Hopes And Aspirations And Faith Of The Entire Human Race. I Do Not Stand Here As Advocate For Any Partisan Cause, For The Issues Are Fundamental And Reach Quite Beyond The Realm Of Partisan Consideration. They Must Be Resolved On The Highest Plane Of National Interest If Our Course Is To Prove Sound And Our Future Protected. I Trust, Therefore, That You Will Do Me The Justice Of Receiving That Which I Have To Say As Solely Expressing The Considered Viewpoint Of A Fellow American.

I Am Concerned For The Security Of Our Great Nation; Not So Much Because Of Any Threat From Without, But Because Of The Insidious Forces Working From Within.

Are We Going To Continue To Yield Personal Liberties And Community Autonomy To The Steady Inexplicable Centralization All Political Power Or Restore The Republic To Constitutional Direction, Regain Our Personal Liberties And Reassume The Individual State's Primary Responsibility And Authority In The Conduct Of Local Affairs? Are We Going To Permit A Continuing Decline In Public And Private Morality Or Re-establish High Ethical Standards As The Means Of Regaining A Diminishing Faith In The Integrity Of Our Public And Private Institutions?