Character

What unites a people composed of all the racial stocks of the world? What composes our differences, harmonizes our relationships? What inspires confidence, insures credit, and promotes organization? What, in the last analysis, guarantees protection of person and property, gives assurance of peace and prosperity, and inspires America to greater adventures and larger achievements? The answer is not to be found in the sum of all her natural resources, factories, farms, homes, schools, hospitals, and churches. These are created by man and by man can be destroyed. The security of our property, the continuation of our institutions, the increase of our possessions and the perpetuity of the principles of individual rights, justice, and freedom, the observance of which has made America, lie in character - the greatest asset of America.