State Papers and Addresses

Big as our Country is, rich as it is beyond the telling in natural wealth,
the fact already has been borne home to us that possibly deep financial sacri-
fices will be necessary before we can be satisfied that the end of adequate de-
fense preparedness has been achieved.

Important as they are at any time, such tax reductions are doubly meaning-
ful now, because they indicate most convincingly the readiness of our State for
any development. We're liquid, we have money in our pockets. And I believe
you will all agree that that's a good way to be at this particular moment, when
Democracy, which means Marylanders and all other Americans, must make the
supreme effort for survival.

Now, as never before, we need unity, we need solidarity, we need to have
the people of our States, and the States themselves, knit in a close-working
union whose purposes and aims will admit of no hesitancy or misgivings. The
times call for the elimination of strikes so that full production can be had.

There are meetings like" our own taking place all over the country.
Wherever they convene there will be no division of purpose; no divergence of
aim. Dictatorships are only as strong as the one man1 who rules; Democracies
are as strong as the united strength of the people, bound to one another not
by force—not by fear—but by the burning passion for freedom, by the emotion
which we call the love of liberty.