Our Institutions Of Freedom Will

In Order To Bring A Nation To Support The Burdens Incident To Maintaining Great Military Establishments, It Is Necessary To Create An Emotional State Akin To War Psychology. There Must Be The Portrayal Of An External Menace Or Of Internal Conditions Rendered Intolerable By The Unjust Restraints Of Foreign Nations. This Involves The Development To A High Degree Of The Nation-hero Nation-villain Ideology And The Arousing Of The Population To A Sense Of The Duty Of Sacrifice.

Economic And Military Power Can Be Developed Under The Spur Of Laws And Appropriations. But Moral Power Does Not Derive From Any Act Of Congress. It Depends On The Relations Of A People To Their God. It Is The Churches To Which We Must Look To Develop The Resources For The Great Moral Offensive That Is Required To Make Human Rights Secure, And To Win A Just And Lasting Peace.

I Hope The Day Will Never Come When The American Nation Will Be The Champion Of The Status Quo. Once That Happens, We Shall Have Forfeited, And Rightly Forfeited, The Support Of The Unsatisfied, Of Those Who Are The Victims Of Inevitable Imperfections, Of Those Who, Young In Years Or Spirit, Believe That They Can Make A Better World And Of Those Who Dream Dreams And Want To Make Their Dreams To Come True.

The United Nations Represents Not A Final Stage In The Development Of World Order, But Only A Primitive Stage. Therefore Its Primary Task Is To Create The Conditions Which Will Make Possible A More Highly Developed Organization.

The Mark Of A Successful Organization Isn't Whether Or Not It Has Problems, Its Whether It Has The Same Problems It Had Last Year.