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I have frequently written of the danger to liberty at home from the constant increase in the activity, the spending, and the power of the Federal Government, but today the threat from foreign policy is even greater. We have wandered far from its true purpose to preserve the peace and liberty of the people of the United States. Even when the purpose has been correctly understood, mistakes of judgment have led us into dangerous paths. We are embarked on a voyage at this moment in which a continued failure of understanding and judgment may wreck the greatest adventure in freedom the human race has ever known.

Our forefathers came to a continent of forests, wide plains, and savages. They lived by the work of their own hands. Those who did not wish to work for another man opened new land for themselves. There was no trace in their hard, free life of a caste system or a feudal system or an inherited aristocracy.

More than a century before Marx was born a frontier equality in social relations gave us—and still gives us—an unequaled social democracy in the true sense of those Communist-perverted words. The pioneers, who carried with them one book, the Bible, also laid up for us a moral capital which has not yet been exhausted.