I have the conviction, as you know, that this whole round globe now hangs as a ripe apple for our plucking, if we use the right ladder while the chance lasts.

I do not mean that we want or could get the apple for ourselves, but that we can see to it that it is put to proper uses.

What we have to do, in my judgment, is to go back to our political fathers for our clue.

If my longtime memory be good, they were sure that their establishment of a great free Republic would soon be imitated by European peoples--that democracies would take the place of autocracies in all so-called civilized countries; for that was the form that the fight took in their day against organized Privilege.

But for one reason or another--in our life-time partly because we chose so completely to isolate ourselves--the democratic idea took root in Europe with disappointing slowness.