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rest the responsibility upon each nation to guide its affairs so as
to serve the larger destiny of mankind. In short, this group would
apply to nations the same categories of moral restraint and mutual
obligation which are applied to people. To those who raise the
specter of a super-government, we ask, "Is national security so great
& value that you are willing to threaten the future of manking in
order to maintain absolute independence of other people?" And of
those who would establish an rall-powerful super-state, we inquire,
"Is human freedom so small a thing that you would purchase security
by establishing a global concentration camp?" The choice is not
between freedom and security. The choice lies between both together,
or none of either that is worth having.
Now what has all this to do with the class of 1949? The meaning
is not far to seek. In the years ahead you must collectively decidetthese
issues of such determinative significance in our national life. And
C
they are only illustrations, the control of Atomic Energy is another
that may be more important than any of these: This institution
has given you the intellectual skills required to make discriminating
decisions regarding the types of problems we have been discussing,
and the many others which you will face in the immediate future.
These problems as you will have observed involve judgments concerning
values, questions to which there can be no single answer. They
require careful weighing of the consequences of two or more possible
courses of action and taking that course which, considering all the
evidence available, seems sensible, just, and proper. There was a
time when men, and nations too, could avoid such decisions without
serious consequences to themselves. For they could live a life apart.
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