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Essays and addresses

At the present time we are at war, and more than ever we should be one people.

You should do your best to make that aspiration a solid fact.

But there is now a most pressing duty not known to us in times of peace ; a duty different in kind, not simply in degree.

We are now in the midst of a world war for democracy, for the rule of the people.

The righf to govern ourselves, whether we do that well or ill, is the birthright of all the English-speaking people, the aspiration of all those in the world whether they speak English or not, whose views of human liberty are those of Hampden and Pym and the heroes of 1688.