There are those who subvert morality as the means to gain or entrench power. There are those who, believing themselves liberals, chart a course which can but lead to destruction. There are those cynically inclined whose restless impulse is ever seeking change. There are those who are constantly trying to alter our basic concepts of freedom and human rights. There are those who seek to prevent men from fearlessly speaking their minds according to the dictates of their conscience.

There are those who plan to limit our individual right to share in the sovereign power of the people. There are those who subvert government from being the guardian of the people's rights to make it an instrument of despotic power. There are those who alter the constitutional checks and balances established to preserve the integrity of our coordinate branches. There are those who seek to make the burden of taxation so great and progressively to increase to alarmingly that the spirit of adventure, tireless energy and masterful initiative which built the material strength of the nation shall become stultified and inert.

There are those who seek to make all men the servants of the state. There are those seek to change our system of free private enterprise, which, whatever it's faults, commands the maximum of energy from human resources and provides the maximum of benefits in human happiness and contentment.

Finally, and perhaps the most deadly, are those who seek to convert us to a form of socialistic endeavor, leading directly to the path of communist slavery. As a counterbalance to those forces is the deep spiritual urge in the hearts of our people. A spiritual urge capable of arousing and directing a decisive and impelling public opinion. This indeed is the great safeguard and resource of America. So long as it exists, we are secure, for it holds us to the path of reason. It is an infallible reminder that our greatest hope rests upon two mighty symbols: the cross and the flag. The one based on those immutable doctrines which provide the spiritual strength to persevere along the course which is just and right, the other based upon the invincible will that human freedom shall not perish from the earth.

These are the mighty bulwarks against the advance of those atheistic, predatory forces which seek to destroy the spirituality of the human mind and to enslave the human body. On this day, annually set apart for all Americans to pledge allegiance to the flag and to the republic for which it stands, let us pray for the spiritual strength and innate wisdom to keep this nation to the course of freedom charted by our fathers, to preserve it as the mighty instrument on earth to bring universal order out of existing chaos, to restore liberty where liberty has perished, and to re-establish human dignity where human dignity has been suppressed.