Campaign Speech

Performed by Governor Alf Landon (R-KS)
Recorded 1936

The danger to America, and such a ghastly hoax, is that when the people have been fooled by the cry of "wolf!, wolf!," when there is no wolf, they are apt to think that every leader is just another foolish shepherd boy, and every emergency is unreal. We Americans like straight shooters. We don't need to be fooled or duped into making sacrifices for our country. In the heart of every American lives the spirit of Decatur's famous toast, "our country, in her intercourse with foreign nations--may she always be right; but our country, right or wrong."