If it were possible to place this volume in the hands of every American
citizen I feel profoundly convinced there would follow an uplift toward
right-living and right-thinking which would affect the destiny of our
race more than anything which has yet occurred in our history.
There is here presented a fearless expression of views upon the
paramount problems of the age, social, economic and political, by a
citizen who has been exalted to the highest office in the
world—expressions of opinion made upon many occasions during his term of
Presidency. But it is an unparalleled spectacle to see a man who has
risen to such greatness dare to discuss some of the questions which are
here treated, and still more rare to find them handled with such great
wisdom.
I ask the reader to go a little deeper than a mere reading of these
varied subjects of such vital moment to him; that he permit his mind to
be receptive of the powerful and subtle influences which run like a holy
pattern through the woof and warp of the whole design.
Here are the eternal truths limned in a new light by one of the most
forceful personalities of the day. It is true that the views expressed
here are held by a large proportion of our citizens who will rejoice to
find what they have long felt so cogently expressed by an exemplar of
what he preaches, who adds to the simple truths he has been inspired to
expound, the dignity of the high office he holds—the highest that has
been attained by man since the dawn of the world—that of the Presidency
of the new and dominant race of the Western Hemisphere.
I bespeak of every reader the kindness of doing whatever lies in his
power to make known to his fellow citizens this volume; speak of it
whenever you can; or, still better, present a volume to any friend who
has your sincerest good wishes.