BOOK I


The time is ripe for these nations to build an Atlantic Community. --
Atlantic Congress, Final Declaration, June 10, 1959.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier ... a frontier of unknown
opportunities and perils ... it holds out the promise of more sacrifice
instead of more security ... Beyond that frontier are uncharted areas of
science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered
pockets of ignorance and prejudice ... The times demand invention,
innovation, imagination, decision. I am asking each of you to be
pioneers on that new frontier. -- Senator John F. Kennedy accepting the
Democratic nomination for President July 15, 1960.

We are ready to go ahead and explore new approaches. We are a society of
individuals. Our institutions project outward from the people, not
downward to the people. -- Vice President Richard M. Nixon in Life,
August 29, 1960.

A period of crisis is always a period of opportunity. ... It may mark
the beginning of a period of steady deterioration, ending, so far as
human intelligence can foresee, in tragedy. Or it may be the beginning
of better things. -- Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, of Great Britain,
United Nations Assembly, September 29, 1960.

Something must be done. We cannot ... sit helplessly watching the world
drift in a direction which can only end in catastrophe. -- Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India, United Nations Assembly, October 3,
1960.

To my mind, Atlantic Union is an absolute and early necessity ... an
excellent idea. And the sooner we move, the better it is. -- Dr. Edward
Teller, "father of the H-Bomb," November 12, 1960.

Where once we could unite only in fear, I believe we can now unite in
courage and hope to do more noble works than men have ever done before
... We can go beyond allaying fears to fulfilling dreams. -- Vice
President-elect Lyndon B. Johnson at the NATO Parliamentarians
Conference, Paris, November 22, 1960.

When was the American Revolution effected ... was the blood of thousands
spilt, and the hard-earned substance of millions lavished, not that the
people of America should enjoy peace, liberty and safety, but that the
government of the individual States ... might enjoy a certain extent of
power, and be arrayed with certain dignities and attributes of
sovereignty? We have heard of the impious doctrine in the Old World,
that the people were made for kings, not kings for the people. Is the
same doctrine to be revived in the New in another shape -- that the
solid happiness of the people is to be sacrificed to ... political
institutions of a different form? ... As far as the sovereignty of the
States cannot be reconciled to the happiness of the people, the voice of
every good citizen must be, Let the former be sacrificed to the latter.
-- James Madison, No. 45 of The Federalist, 1788.

If there is a country in the world where the doctrine of the sovereignty
of the people can be fairly appreciated ... and where its dangers and
advantages may be judged, that country is assuredly America * * * The
people reign in the American political world as the Deity does in the
universe. They are the cause and the aim of all things; everything comes
from them and everything is absorbed in them. -- Tocqueville, Democracy
in America, Vol. 1, chapter IV 1835 (my translation)

We must appeal to the sober sense and patriotism of the people. We will
make converts day by day; we will grow strong by calmness and
moderation; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our
adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we
will be the majority after a while, and the revolution which we will
accomplish will be none the less radical from being the result of
pacific measures. The battle of freedom is to be fought out on
principle. -- Abraham Lincoln in his "Lost Speech," May 19, 1856.

