A War That is Finished — Vocabulary
Gerald R. Ford
1975 Speech
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Yet, the epic struggle nevertheless restored America's pride.†

Louisiana had been a State for less than three years, but outnumbered Americans innovated, outnumbered Americans used the tactics of the frontier to defeat a veteran British force trained in the strategy of the Napoleonic wars.†

America's opportunities are unprecedented.†

As I see it, the time has come to look forward to an agenda for the future, to unify, to bind up the Nation's wounds, and to restore its health and its optimistic self-confidence.†

We must learn more about people, about the development of communities, architecture, engineering, education, motivation, productivity, public health and medicine, arts and sciences, political, legal, and social organization.†

It is true that we have launched our Bicentennial celebration without having achieved human perfection, but we have attained a very remarkable self-governed society that possesses the flexibility and the dynamism to grow and undertake an entirely new agenda, an agenda for America's third century.†

I challenge the engineers in this audience to devise new techniques for developing cheap, clean, and plentiful energy, and as a byproduct, to control floods.†

It will enhance our own perception of ourselves and our pride in being an American.†

I challenge the engineers in this audience to devise new techniques for developing cheap, clean, and plentiful energy, and as a byproduct, to control floods.†

The new agenda, that which is developed by you and by us, must place a high priority on the need to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and to work for the mutual reduction in strategic arms and control of other weapons.†

But we are now learning that a strain of rice that grows in one place will not grow in another; that factories that produce at 100 percent in one nation produce less than half as much in a society where temperaments and work habits are somewhat different.

My goal is to stimulate productivity, but use technology to redeem, not to destroy our environment.†

We must not only be motivated to build a better America, we must know how to do it.†

However, tonight, with your indulgence, let me share with you my own views.

The time has now come for our Government to facilitate the individual's control over his or her future — and of the future of America.†

If we really want a humane America that will, for instance, contribute to the alleviation of the world's hunger, we must realize that good intentions do not feed people.†

Tonight, I would like to talk about another kind of strength, the true source of American power that transcends all of the deterrent powers for peace of our Armed Forces.†

Tonight, I would like to talk about another kind of strength, the true source of American power that transcends all of the deterrent powers for peace of our Armed Forces.†

So, the illustrious victory in the Battle of New Orleans was a powerful restorative to our national pride.†

Abraham Lincoln asked, in his own words, and I quote, "What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?"†