I Can Recall No Parallel

Today The Guns Are Silent. A Great Tragedy Has Ended. A Great Victory Has Been Won. The Skies No Longer Rain With Death - The Seas Bear Only Commerce - Men Everywhere Walk Upright In The Sunlight. The Entire World Lies Quietly At Peace. The Holy Mission Has Been Completed. And In Reporting This To You, The People, I Speak For The Thousands Of Silent Lips, Forever Stilled Among The Jungles And The Beaches And In The Deep Waters Of The Pacific Which Marked The Way.

Let Us Pray That Peace Be Now Restored To The World, And That God Will Preserve It Always.

I Promise To Keep On Living As Though I Expected To Live Forever. Nobody Grows Old By Merely Living A Number Of Years. People Grow Old Only Be Deserting Their Ideals. Years May Wrinkle The Skin, But To Give Up Interest Wrinkles The Soul.

I Stand On This Rostrum With A Sense Of Deep Humility And Great Pride - Humility In The Weight Of Those Great American Architects Of Our History Who Have Stood Here Before Me; Pride In The Reflection That This Home Of Legislative Debate Represents Human Liberty In The Purest Form Yet Devised.

It Seems Strangely Difficult For Some To Realize That Here In Asia Is Where The Communist Conspirators Have Elected To Make Their Play For Global Conquest, And That We Have Joined The Issue Thus Raised On The Battlefield; That Here We Fight Europe's War With Arms While The Diplomats There Still Fight It With Words; That If We Lose The War To Communism In Asia The Fall Of Europe Is Inevitable, Win It And Europe Most Probably Would Avoid War And Yet Preserve Freedom. As You Pointed Out, We Must Win. There Is No Substitute For Victory.