I certainly appreciate the cordial introduction and support of Miss Bankhead.

I, Harry S. Truman,President of the United States of America, do declare and proclaim:

Their candidate for President is the chief prosecutor against the New Deal.

The Republican politicians never have liked the New Deal, and they would like to get rid of it--repeal it--put it out of existence.

We call those laws the New Deal.

For myself, and for the Democratic Party, I completely reject the idea that we should 'eliminate' the New Deal.

A President may dismiss the abuse of scoundrels, but to be denounced by honest men honestly outraged is a test of greatness that none but the strongest men survive.

The strength of this Republic lies in the fact that so many millions of men and women, who held no office and aspire to none, recognize as clearly as Jackson, Polk, and Johnson did that they must serve their country before they serve…

It is good at such a time to pause to take strength and guidance from our country's past.

What each of them meant to his time, you have been told by many learned men.

It takes courage to face a duelist with a pistol and it takes courage to face a British general with an army.

We dedicate here today not merely a monument to great men of the past, but also to the greatness of free men now and forever.

Thomas Jefferson has been endlessly praised for adding 827,000 square miles to the United States by the Louisiana Purchase.

Because they lived through days when reason was overcome by emotion, their acts were misunderstood and misinterpreted.

A man more careful to preserve his own peace than to 'preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States' might have drifted into ways that would have ended in the destruction of the Union.

Jackson, Polk, and Johnson are gone. Yet they are forever a part of North Carolina.

To attempt to correct injustice by disunion is to apply a remedy that is worse than the disease.

It is not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It is the hand that casts the ballot.