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Peace Will Never Be Won If Men Reserve For War Their Greatest Efforts, Peace, Too, Requires Well-directed And Sustained Sacrificial Endeavor. Given That, We Can, I Believe, Achieve The Great Goal Of Our Foreign Policy, That Of Enabling Our People To Enjoy In Peace The Blessings Of Liberty.

Peace Can Be A Cover Whereby Evil Men Can Perpetrate Diabolical Wrongs.

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.

Local Defense Will Always Be Important. But There Is No Local Defense Which Alone Will Contain The Mighty Land Power Of The Communist World. Local Defense Must Be Reinforced By The Further Deterrent Of Massive Retaliatory Power.

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.