Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them. What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand. When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw a breath of self-respect. You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad. All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end. In America, any boy may become President...and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop. | 
