That way of life is menaced. We can meet the threat. We can meet it in the old frontier way. We can forge our weapons, train ourselves to shoot, meet fire with fire, and with the courage and the unity of the frontiersmen.
It is our pride that in our country men are free to differ with each other and with their government, and to follow their own thoughts and express them. We believe that the only whole man is a free man. And we believe that in the face of danger, the old spirit of the frontiersmen which is in our blood, will give us the courage and unity that we must have.
We need that spirit in this hour. We need a conviction, felt deep in us all, that there are no divisions among us. We are all members of the same body. We are all Americans.
The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mountains — the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic — have always blown on free men. We are free today. If we join together now — men, women and children — and face the common menace as a united people, we shall be free tomorrow.