others. The neighbor who respects his ob1igation, and respects the sanctity
of his agreement, in and with, a world of neighbor.

If I read the temper of our people correctly we now realize what we have
never realized before, our inter-dependence on each other, that we cannot
merely take, but we must give as well. That if we are to go forward, we
must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good
of a common discipline, because without such discip1ine, no progress can
be made, no leadership becomes effective. We are all ready and willing
to submit our lives and our property to such discipline because it makes
possible a 1eadership which aims at the larger good. This, I propose to
offet we are going to larger purposes, bind upon us, bind upon us all,
as a sacred obligation with a unity of duty hitherto evoked only in times
of armed strife.

With this pledge taken, I assume unhesitatingly, the leadership of this
great army of our people dedicated to a disciplined attack upon our common
problems. Action in this image, action to this end, is feasible under the
form of government which we have inherited from my ancestors. Our constitution
is so simple, so practical, that it is possible always, to meet extraordinary
needs, by changes in emphasis and arrangements without loss of a central
form, that is why our constitutional system has proved itself the most
superbly enduring political mechanism the modern world has ever seen. It
has met every stress of vast expansion of territory of foreign wars, of
bitter internal strife, of world relations.

And it is to be hoped that the normal balance of executive and legislative
authority wi1l be fully equal, fully adequate to meet the unprecedented
task before us. But it may be that an unprecedented demand and need for
underlay action may call for temporary departure from that normal balance
of public procedure.

We face the arduous days that lie before us in the warm courage of national
unity in the clearest consciousness of seeking all and precious moral values,
with the clean satisfaction that comes from the stern performance of duty
by old and young alike, we aim at the assurance of a rounded, a permanent
national life.

We do not distrust the future of essential democracy The people of the
United States have not failed. In their need, they have registered a mandate
that they want direct, vigorous action. They have asked for discipline,
and direction under leadership, they have made me the present instrument
of their wishes. In the spirit of the gift, I take it.

In this dedication, in this dedication of a nation, we humbly ask the b1essings
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