If we serve them better now, they will serve their nation better when the burdens are theirs alone.

As Maine goes, so goes Vermont, and I hope so goes the Nation.

Thus, today, the university is, in the words of Woodrow Wilson, 'the root of our intellectual life as a nation.'

For this will be a wholly different nation in 1970 with wholly different needs, and we must begin now to meet those needs.

And we owe it to our Nation to educate our children, for the bedrock of democracy is a constantly rising level of the education of its citizens.

I think a nation that holds itself out as the champion of democracy has an obligation to do better by all Americans.

We must do everything we can to make those homes ... places that establish the moral character that this Nation itself is going to follow.

The prosperity of the agricultural community is absolutely necessary to the prosperity of the nation.

Perhaps it is just best for me to say I am proud to be an agent for our people in conferring upon you this highest award that the Government has, and to say that your real reward--as all of us here know--is in the hearts, the thanks and the gratitude of our entire nation.

And I know that in this institution just as in all others, we have our devoted educators trying to get over to all of their students that thought: let us strive to understand--understand each other, and our Nation to understand others, and help them to an understanding of ourselves.

Freedom must be fought for today, just as our fathers had to fight for freedom when the Nation was born.

A great World War in which our Nation has been involved has wrought unparalleled changes in the growth, location, and characteristics of our people and in their housing and industries.

I think this great Nation has only begun to be great.

This is a basic requirement for progressive advancement of the welfare and prosperity of our own Nation.

Just as the Exchange then was able to render an important service to the public and to the Nation, so today it has the opportunity of performing valued services in the present struggle for human freedom.

The role of the Exchange and its responsibilities in the financial affairs of the Nation have steadily increased.

But beyond platforms and measures there lies that sacred realm of ideals of hopes and aspirations, those things of the spirit, which make the greatness and the soul of the Nation.

From the inspiration and the ideals which gave birth to this Nation, there has come the largest measure of liberty that man has yet devised.