But if the spirit of America were killed, even though the Nation's body and mind, constricted in an alien world, lived on, the America we know would have perished.

A sound nation is built of individuals sound in body and mind and spirit. Government dares not ignore the individual citizen.

It is not enough to clothe and feed the body of this Nation, and instruct and inform its mind. For there is also the spirit. And of the three, the greatest is the spirit.

This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper.

So long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war.

We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization.