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Yet, In Holding Scientific Research And Discovery In Respect, As We Should, We Must Also Be Alert To The Equal And Opposite Danger That Public Policy Could Itself Become The Captive Of A Scientific-technological Elite.

It Is Well For Us To Pause, To Acknowledge Our Debt To Those Who Paid So Large A Share Of Freedom's Price.

And I Should Like To Assure You, My Islamic Friends, That Under The American Constitution, Under American Tradition, And In American Hearts, This Center, This Place Of Worship, Is Just As Welcome As Could Be A Similar Edifice Of Any Other Religion. Indeed, America Would Fight With Her Whole Strength For Your Right To Have Here Your Own Church And Worship According To Your Own Conscience. This Concept Is Indeed A Part Of America, And Without That Concept We Would Be Something Else Than What We Are.

Kinship Among Nations Is Not Determined In Such Measurements As Proximity Of Size And Age. Rather We Should Turn To Those Inner Things - Call Them What You Will - I Mean Those Intangibles That Are The Real Treasures Free Men Possess. To Preserve His Freedom Of Worship, His Equality Before Law, His Liberty To Speak And Act As He Sees Fit, Subject Only To Provisions That He Trespass Not Upon Similar Rights Of Others - A Londoner Will Fight. So Will A Citizen Of Abilene. When We Consider These Things, Then The Valley Of The Thames Draws Closer To The Farms Of Kansas And The Plains Of Texas.

History Does Not Long Entrust The Care Of Freedom To The Weak Or The Timid.