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Remarks made by Senator Dale Bumpers at the announcement of the Brooks Hays Memorial Fund ; "Without popular education, popular government will be a farce or tragedy, perhaps both," we know that there can be no government of and for the people without government by the people, citizens of a racial minority, who meet the qualifications prescribed for electors, should not be denied a vote because of race, this, too, is basic. The third imperative is disciplined freedom. This embraces the right to maintain private schools at private expense, not as a substitute for public education but as a privilege in American life that not only adds to our cultural enrichment but helps to preserve the independence of view­point that makes freedom possible. this principle grants to both the proponents and opponents of proposed changes the right to organize, and their rights are not forfeited by methods and manners that are not admirable, so long as they are not illegal. Finally, there must be a due concern for the preservation of our common faith -- the faith which sustains our position of world leadership, if there were not other and higher motivations we would still be inspired to bind up the nation's wounds by the knowledge that a ruthless force is loose in the world and that our failure at this point would be exploited. the door that religion alone can open leads to a pure passageway of peace and justice.

Remarks made by Senator Dale Bumpers at the announcement of the Brooks Hays Memorial Fund ; Immediately after the 1958 election, Brooks' friends held a testimonial dinner, brooks gave a speech which revealed the basic philosophy of government that guided him throughout his life: While I honor the office of representative, I am convinced that under the circumstances the loss of my seat in Congress is not too big a price to pay. Is there a standard to which the just and prudent may repair? There is. First, it seems to me, is an appreciation of what rule of law means in sustaining our liberties and our property. The point does not need laboring, but the times do call for reminders that the constitution provides a method for change and that until changed, unpopular as well as popular laws must be respected. Odium does not attach to lawful protests against statutes or decisions. Defiance is another matter. Secondly, we must have a firm commitment to the democratic tradition as expressed in our procedures and institutions. Our public school system must be preserved. Without it the freedom that flowers from an educated citizenry would perish. James Madison put it succinctly:

Remarks made by Senator Dale Bumpers at the announcement of the Brooks Hays Memorial Fund ; Once, at a meeting of college students, one of them asked Brooks just what he thought was the American Dream. Spontaneously, he responded: It is the anticipation that some time we will be able to say here is equality and freedom, here is brotherhood and justice. The dream is of compassion expressing itself in society's concern for those who fall by the way in a competitive system. It is imagination perfecting the mechanisms of government. It is sensitivity to the claim of righteousness in human affairs. It is the hope that triumphs here will strengthen values shared with people around the world. It is human kindness so penetrating the nation that every man, no matter how incapacitated, will feel that he is wanted. It is the vision of opened doors of opportunity. It is insistence upon government by as well as for and of the people. It is the hope of human dignity made secure. It is the longing for acknowledgment of the human family's oneness. It is the vision of a citizenry drawn together in mutual confidence, facing common evils and exalting a common faith in God. This is my conception of the American Dream.

Remarks made by Senator Dale Bumpers at the announcement of the Brooks Hays Memorial Fund ; Immediately after the 1958 election, Brooks' friends held a testimonial dinner, brooks gave a speech which revealed the basic philosophy of government that guided him throughout his life: While I honor the office of representative, I am convinced that un