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Show 95 V'Qr, I" he answers to The word .. his own quotation. truth'· is the key to 4S sooeeS$ful personel rei oti ons , the hasb for .n ,ovemmenhd, 'nternol end international, relotiQns. Personal freedom is sUltained in h'fs so far 8. the pelion respects his o'wn freedom. well that of GS cmother, netghbor. tndividual freedom is related defend fighting to He says thet, our to 'freedoms, but intemottone) relations end in fighting for them, we war. should We not are lose them. the freedoms for, wh ich Jefferson s,tood should not be must not attempt to abridge the fr.... dom of speec h or of the press, 8. ther by the pG$SOge of restrictIve lews or by the condemnations of WQr, what has ,he gained? If we cost ClWQ)' the fundamental vcdues of democracy, why saerifice tc save ourselves f,rom those who would only take them from va in onother way? We mU$t pJe&erve our freedom at home, even in the foee of every threat from obreed. 46 ••• forgotten; Amerke Faith ond bel.;ef in the individual will lighting the of the right. 45 Wor is war,. provide the unity necessary stupid, hateful, and needless, but one fot the shQuld fight for 47 Conqressional Record, Vol. 83, p. A214, (75th Congress, 3d S ... , January 21, 1938). 46 47 Thomas Jefferson, .2e.. elt., p. 158. war os being utterly $tuped, hoteful, and needless, I bring myself to bel ieve that Q world of human beings will ever be one of bl iss. I expect contention, I look forward to contest, I do nof conceive of a uWhile I condemn con never pure time when have to take sides. There will always be a right and a put the sphere of notions, as civilization has attempted to put the sphere of individuols, on 0 plane of morality, that is aU that anyone can ask. Let usflght for what is right and let us not belittle those who take Q stand for right: uOel_nse and External Obligations," Congressional Record, Vol. 84, p, men wrong: and if will not we can 2785, (76th Congress, 1st 5 ••• , June 22, 1939). |
