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...arming to defend an invariant type of political system. I should be unwilling personally to declare even that we are arming to defend 'democracy,' for the word democracy has suffered grievously in this last decade...
...What are we arming to defend? We are arming, I take it, to prevent such a change in the political and economic situation in this country as would make us a subservient people to a master state. We are arming to prevent such a revolution in our way of life as would make this land for everyone who values liberty a prison house in which to live...
...arming to defend a particular form of representative government. We may at some later time wish to modify and simplify our highly complex governmental pattern. But most of us would believe we were arming to defend certain principles embodied in our constitutional form of government...
...believe that it is this unique form of society which we are really arming to defend, a society which has grown up in the last two hundred years on this continent under unique conditions, and as a result has enabled us to formulate a new ideal...
...women of Britain have shown how free people defend what they know to be right. Their heroic defense will be recorded for all time. It will be perpetual proof that democracy, when put to the test, can show the stuff of which it is made...