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.

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

While we are and shall remain fully committed to the spirit of a government of national unity, we are determined to initiate and bring about the change that our mandate from the people demands.

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction.

We know it because democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.