“In order to love our own country we do not have to
hate anyone. There is enough to inspire love here….Who are these people, the
Americans? They are a people who, as we have said, hold sacred the Word of God.
They are a people molded by the dangers and the beauty and the open bounty of
this continent....Out of many, they are one. Theirs is a unity based upon the
brotherhood of man under the Fatherhood of God; theirs, too, the great and
vigorous diversity based on respect for man, the individual. Here is no
orthodoxy, no worship of authority. ... We are too proud, too stubborn, too
cussedly independent for the bridle. And this, indeed, is the secret of our
strength, and of the lasting-power of our society.”—Dean Acheson (1893-1971),
Secretary of State, from a speech delivered before a meeting sponsored jointly
by the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. and the Washington
Federation of Churches at the National Guard Armory, Washington, D.C., Washington,
D.C. Sept. 29, 1952, and reprinted as “Religious Faith in American Life,” Foreign
Service Journal, December 1952
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