Eisenhower

That daring, typically American, has been justified in rare measure.

By the way, John Wisdom told me on the way out here that there was a Mayor and three councilmen of a little town somewhere elected in Louisiana.

So among other things, keep a grin on your face.

The Louisiana Purchase effectively doubled the area of our young nation, brought this country unimagined wealth, and gave us strength and international influence beyond the dreams of our nation's founders just 25 years earlier.

In any event, that industry has now reached the proportions that everything that affects it is of interest to the entire United States.

In the first place, this is my section of the world.

This great and wonderful living that we have has featuring among other things the finest diet in the world--and the Hereford produces most of it.

Well, it shows you how wrong people can be, when they prophesy against progress.

And so, with you, although there may not be a face in the throng that I recognize, I feel at home--and I hope you will allow me to do so.

Now I am sorry that I can't shout any louder, but I do want to say to every one of you: I am so honored that you came down to let me say 'Good morning, how are you.'

A chief bulwark of our heritage against any such decay of the law has been and is and will be the American school system.

And long may this library here stand and serve the needs of Defiance College.

I hope you will allow me to say that not only am I very proud of this distinction, but I shall expect to profit from it.

They were explorers and trappers and missionaries, traders, and farmers, and teachers, diggers of waterways and skilled operators of an industrial empire.

Your own property, your own security, your own opportunity, your own liberties, they must be earned-they cannot be bestowed upon you.

Mastery of good farming is, of course, your immediate concern as Future Farmers of America.

To live for America as devotedly, as nobly as so many thousands have died for her is the greatest ambition any of her children can have.

I look upon the formulation of a sound farm policy as a bi-partisan undertaking.

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.

Our great cities, our mighty industries, our business and professional accomplishments, our educational institutions, our high living standards--are possible because of the efficiency and productivity of the American farm.

So, as I bring you greetings today, I ask you one thing: to study this whole problem yourselves, to stand behind reasonable, decent proposals in the maintaining of strength, in the keeping of our peaceful relations with others.

I believe that America can bring about a situation in which we can have peace.

Our school system is more important than ever before, because the job of being an American citizen is more complex than ever before in our history.

Thus, in this fashion, we will firm up the needed program and we will have that program ready for the consideration of the Congress early next year.

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 his means or his lack of means can go to…