
Today, as always, if a nation is to keep its freedom it must be prepared to risk war.
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Today, as always, if a nation is to keep its freedom it must be prepared to risk war.

You answered his call. America began to move.

I do not yet know the answer to all the problems of agriculture.

And we are going to use all the skill and all the energy that God has given us in order to keep these doors of opportunity open for every child in the land.

I never for a moment entertain a doubt that there is any commissar or any regimented slave labor anywhere in the world that can outproduce or outsurpass or outlive our system of capital, management, and labor in the good old U.S.A.

I hope all of you have tickets to the dinner tonight.

Resolve tonight to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Secretary Freeman is my strong right arm.

If our future depended on our numbers, our adversaries could defeat us tonight.

But we are not going to the American people and tell them that they never had it so good, or don't rock the boat, or let's keep what we have, or stand pat, or keep cool.

But that is the road that we are going to take.

Minnesota believes in growing opportunities for all Americans.

They will not be faced easily and painlessly and without risk.

It is the first step toward the greatness that is within our grasp.

And I would remind you good Americans tonight that there is a law more hallowed than the civil rights bill, more hallowed than even the Constitution of the United States.

But that is the road we are going to take.