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To abandon our commitments, to withdraw from our responsibilities, would endanger free men and free women everywhere, and would bring the hope for peace to an end.

The sound of gunfire in Asia echoes in the homes of Illinois and Missouri.

There would not be 'total' victory, but there would be 'total' devastation, and the survivors would be jealous of the dead.

Since I was a little boy that went to the post office, in the general store, the first time and put on my first pair of Buster Brown shoes that were made here in St. Louis, I have always had great faith in the people of Missouri.

I would counsel my fellow Americans today in this friendly, happy crowd, in this beautiful city of Belleville, where Americans love their country and they are out here to demonstrate it--I would say to you that we cannot and we must not…

We want them to have more leisure and more recreation for themselves.

I want a government that will encourage business instead of harass it, but I don't want a business government.

So did the four great Presidents who followed him, Democrat and Republican alike.

They want to have their leaders tell them what their problems are, and they don't want to deal in personalities.

We are going to keep our guard up, but our hand out.

Yes, in the words of our great President, this country is moving again.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and of human dignity.

We will not withdraw from the United Nations.








