A long record has been written. In that record, both in this State and in the national capital, you will find a simple, clear and consistent adherence not only to the letter, but to the spirit of the American form of government.

The Constitution is not a mere lawyer's document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.

We know it because democracy alone has constructed an unlimited civilization capable of infinite progress in the improvement of human life.

The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Prophets of the downfall of American democracy have seen their dire predictions come to naught.

The American people do not stand alone in the world in their desire for change. We seek it through tested liberal traditions, through processes which retain all of the deep essentials of that republican form of representative government first given to a troubled world by the United States.