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Excerpt from Peace With Justice: Selected Addresses
These speeches are the record of the man who led his people - and much of the world - during this fateful decade. Though they were given to many diverse groups, they deal with variations on a single theme: Peace. With a devotion to peace, born out of long experience with war and a passionate conviction of the need for its abandon ment, the President sought again and again to point out the requisites for peace and the means by which they could be achieved. The aggregate impact of these addresses is impressive particularly because the President endeavored constantly to detach essential principles and problemsfrom the context of special circumstance and to subject them to thoughtful analysis.
Much stress is laid upon the fundamental need for re sponsible citizenship and a strong sense of civic obligation on the part of all our people. Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. This sentence from the First Inaugural, repeated in later addresses, clearly states one of the Presi dent's strong convictions. Coupled with it is a profound belief in the importance of Faith, a Faith arising from the Christian ethic, a Faith in the dignity of Man, and a Faith - expressed through patriotism - in the tenets of a demo cratic and free society.
But the President is a practical man, and he knows that Faith and Moral Principle are not enough to assure peace. In this collection of speeches, he states repeatedly his beliefs about the proper principles of foreign policy and the means by which they must be implemented if America is to be secure in an uncertain world. Here is a clear voice of judg ment based on long experience.
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