The lawlessness of one nation may threaten the very existence of the law on which all nations depend.

The task of achieving permanent peace and security for all mankind is not easy, but I am certain that permanent peace and security are the goal of all peoples everywhere, whatever their language, or nationality, race, or creed.

International relations have traditionally been compared to a chess game in which each nation tries to outwit and checkmate the other.

The good-neighbor policy specifically includes the Doctrine of Nonintervention.

We believe that the state exists for the benefit of man, not man for the benefit of the state.

The only assured way of maintaining the Army and the Navy at their required strengths during the Fiscal Year 1948 is through resort to Selective Service.

It is the application of the Golden Rule.

Because of my belief that the peoples of the world have peace as a common objective, I refuse to be discouraged by apparent difficulties.

We have a good-neighbor policy in common and, as a result of this sincere application of that policy, we form a good neighborhood.

The wholehearted acceptance of this doctrine by all of us is the keystone of the Inter-American System.

Events in one country may have a profound effect in other countries.

The effort to achieve collective world security has been concurrent with the growing acceptance of the Doctrine of Nonintervention.

All our peoples have a common belief which we call democracy.

In our domestic civil life we long ago recognized that the alternative to the rule of the strong was law established by the community.

This is a simple, fundamental truth.

We do have tragic difficulties then.

Our two countries will not fail each other.

These requirements are absolute, and we must not divest the War and Navy Departments of the means of meeting any material shortages.