I SHALL appreciate it if you will express my cordial greetings to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, now in session in your city.

The necessary multitude of individuals and group adjustments to new conditions is altogether too vast and too complex for that.

The service of the College has been memorable and I speak the heart of the Nation in wishing for it many years of ever increasing usefulness.

The way to the Nation's greatness is the path of self-reliance, independence, and steadfastness in times of trial and stress.

We are still fighting this war of independence.

I will be obliged, however, if you will express my cordial greetings to those gathered for this happy occasion and my profound appreciation of the tremendous service which Berea College, both by its own work and by its example, has done in…

The whole Nation is beset with difficulties incident to a worldwide depression.

Valley Forge is our American synonym for the trial of human character through privation and suffering.

Here men endured that a nation might live.

These peaceful fields hold a glory peculiarly their own.

I enclose a copy of the Children's Charter, which states succinctly the rights of children, regardless of race or color or situation, wherever they may live under the protection of the American flag.

Freedom was won here by fortitude not by the flash of the sword.