We are as certain of defeating communism as we are that we are all in this hall this moment.

My earnest compliments to you, sir.

Your Excellency, it is a great privilege for me to present to you the highest award that this Government can give to anyone not a citizen of this country.

I am honored to be your guest.

We cannot lose; we simply cannot lose.

Ladies and gentlemen, good night, good luck, and I hope to see you again.

If we apply those principles today to ourselves at home, and to our tackling of our relationships with our friends abroad, we can dispel fear from our minds.

America is a place of differing convictions, and if anyone wants to sit in an ivory tower and hear only from those people who believe with him, again, America will not be what he would hope it would be.

We must never accept it if it means the surrender of this vital principle: of living by our own initiative and our individual freedoms to develop ourselves physically, intellectually, and spiritually.

And if ever we lose that part of the system they set up, we will lose the United States as we know it.

It is a special privilege, because in this way we can take note, we hope, of the cooperation of one who has done so much to stand by our side as all of us attempt to defend human freedom, dignity, and liberty in the world.

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