Only too well did the early Colonies know how inexorable was the principle embodied in the phrase. " United we stand. divided we fall ". and in those urgent and strenuous times consistent participation in civic responsibilities on the part of the citizenry was indispensable to the development and maintenance of the independence they established. But such unity. it seems to me. can be possible only between peoples having common bonds of interest and. broadly. common standards and ideals. In order to bind and hold the Union we have built. it has been and always will be necessary to educate in our traditions and ideals the foreign born who come to our shores with the idea of becoming citizens. before they can be actually made citizens in the fuller sense of that capacity. One of the most important of these traditions is our adherence to a program of peace whenever such a position can be maintained with honor. and I believe that this doctrine of peace could well be given much more emphasis among our own native born as well. in furtherance of an urge to peace sufficiently strong to counteract the impulse tovard war. That this impulse is steadily growing more and more repugnant to the more advanced nations is evident on every hand in utterances of representative people.
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