All in our Nation have been cheered by Mr. Churchill’s visit.  We have been deeply stirred by his great message to us.  He is welcome in our midst, and we unite in wishing him a safe return to his home.

For we are fighting on the same side with the British people, who fought alone for long, terrible months, and withstood the enemy with fortitude and tenacity and skill.

We are fighting on the same side with the Russian people who have seen the Nazi hordes swarm up to the very gates of Moscow, and who with almost superhuman will and courage have forced the invaders back into retreat.

We are fighting on the same side as the brave people of China—­those millions who for four and a half long years have withstood bombs and starvation and have whipped the invaders time and again in spite of the superior Japanese equipment and arms.  Yes, we are fighting on the same side as the indomitable Dutch.  We are fighting on the same side as all the other Governments in exile, whom Hitler and all his armies and all his Gestapo have not been able to conquer.

But we of the United Nations are not making all this sacrifice of human effort and human lives to return to the kind of world we had after the last world war.

We are fighting today for security, for progress, and for peace, not only for ourselves but for all men, not only for one generation but for all generations.  We are fighting to cleanse the world of ancient evils, ancient ills.

Our enemies are guided by brutal cynicism, by unholy contempt for the human race.  We are inspired by a faith that goes back through all the years to the first chapter of the Book of Genesis:  “God created man in His own image.”

We on our side are striving to be true to that divine heritage.  We are fighting, as our fathers have fought, to uphold the doctrine that all men are equal in the sight of God.  Those on the other side are striving to destroy this deep belief and to create a world in their own image—­a world of tyranny and cruelty and serfdom.

That is the conflict that day and night now pervades our lives.

No compromise can end that conflict.  There never has been—­there never can be—­successful compromise between good and evil.  Only total victory can reward the champions of tolerance, and decency, and freedom, and faith.

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State of the Union Address
Harry S. Truman
January 21, 1946

To the Congress of the United States: 

A quarter century ago the Congress decided that it could no longer consider the financial programs of the various departments on a piecemeal basis.  Instead it has called on the President to present a comprehensive Executive Budget.  The Congress has shown its satisfaction with that method by extending the budget system and tightening its controls.  The bigger and more complex the Federal Program, the more necessary it is for the Chief Executive to submit a single budget for action by the Congress.