11/03/1953
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"They were explorers and trappers and missionaries, traders, and farmers, and teachers, diggers of waterways and skilled operators of an industrial empire."
"Above all else, however, in the story of their achievements, they helped construct a way of life--the American way of life, of which the cornerstone is an indestructible faith in man's dignity as a ch..."
"Indeed, I firmly believe that more extensive education than that obtainable in high schools must be brought to every community and every locality in such a way that every young person regardless of hi..."
"I am here because of my ultimate faith in education as the hope of the world--Christian religious education, man's free access to knowledge, his right to use it."