our lives to public service and the general welfare of our community
our state and our nation.

The seal of this great organization enjoins you to know, to cherish
and to live good citizenship. I have no doubt that those of you here
will abide by that injunction. Furthermore, it is your duty, as it is
the duty of all of us, to teach, inspire and encourage good citizenship
in others, to the end that we may preserve that spirit of cooperation,
of joint effort, that binds us together as a nation of free people....

ADDRESS, KIWANIS BROTHERHOOD LUNCHEON
WASHINGTON, D. C.

February 25, 1960

The philosophers and statesmen of the Eighteenth Century who
designed the pattern for the modern western state placed brother-
hood on a par with social and political equality and the liberty of
the individual as fundamentals in the organization of a democratic
society.

Liberty, equality, fraternity were watchwords of the rebellious
citizens of France who rose up near the end of that century to over-
throw a despotic monarchy and set up the First French Republic.
And while the word "brotherhood" is not found in our own Declara-
tion of Independence and Constitution, the idea of fraternal unity is
implicit in all the documents that comprise the framework of our
system of government.

The essence of brotherhood, in fact, is embodied in the meaning
of equality and freedom, for men cannot enjoy the fruits of social
and political equality in a free society unless they are imbued with
the kindred spirit of brotherhood.

It was Calvin Coolidge who said that "our doctrine of equality and
liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of
man and the fatherhood of God. " But brotherhood as we feel it and
practice it is, indeed, a spiritual experience, beyond the reach of
the law. The law can forbid a man to trespass upon the property of
his neighbor, but it is powerless to instill in him the feeling of charity,
good will and understanding that is so necessary to a good relation-
ship between the two.

Brotherhood, then, insofar as our democratic society is concerned,

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