I still entertain the hope that direct communications between us may serve the cause of peace.

All of us--America--must stand together, stand strong and be of one mind if we are, from our position of strength, going to lead really on the road of peace.

Peace can finally be achieved for the world.

Let us not forget, my friends, we keep defense forces to keep the peace.

Everything that I can constitutionally do will be done to prevent the outbreak of hostilities in that section.

This time I come armed with something far more powerful: the good will of America--the great hopes of America--the aspirations of America for peace.

I have come here, in this beautiful country of yours, to meet with my colleagues from other countries to see whether it is not possible to find some road that will lead all mankind into a more tranquil, better, fuller way of life.

Such a peace can best be achieved by loyal steadfast support for the Charter of the United Nations.

Until such states as these have a right themselves, by their own free will, to determine their own forms of government and destiny, there could be no real peace in the world.

We want permanent peace based upon confidence, based upon justice and decency, wherever the American government is represented.

If we are sufficiently devoted to the cause of peace, to the kind of progress of which I speak, we will be strong, and then we will be able to cooperate with others, because only strength can cooperate--weakness cannot cooperate, it can only beg.

Always in one hand will be the olive branch held out to all who will take it in honesty and in integrity.

Our sons may stay at home, the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches, and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

You will be doing your full part in bringing about this age-old dream of mankind: peace on earth, goodwill toward men.

It was a tremendous privilege and a great change from the killing of war to turn your armies to saving human lives and human dignity.

And so I dedicate this building to the conquest of disease so that mankind, more safe and secure in body, may more surely advance to a widely shared prosperity and an enduring and just peace.

I do hereby proclaim Memorial Day, Monday, the thirtieth of May, 1955, as a day of Nation-wide prayer for permanent peace.

This is the way that we must win our way to peace.