“I’m John Wayne. ‘Is there any better or equal hope in the world,’ Lincoln asked, ‘than the ultimate justice of the people?’ We Americans believe there is not. The stonework of our national life is made of this belief. Our heritage of freedom is our most priceless possession. Men before us have died to keep it alive, and men in our times have done the same. But all while men have died to preserve it, and may die again, the glory of this heritage is the vision of life that it has given us. A life of dignity and nobility of spirit, such as men have never before been enriched by in the long march through the history they have recorded. There is a phrase which reoccurs in our national documents, the literature of our story as a people which points to the source of our belief in individual freedom. And defines perhaps better than any other the nub of the conflict between the opposing systems of values which sweep the world today. That phrase is ‘This nation under God.’ That phrase and other...