There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. And any who act as if freedoms defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.

Change is the law of life and of relations between nations. When two great peoples such as ours, energetic and optimistic, live side by side in all the diversity that freedom offers, change is rapid and brings in its wake problems, sometimes frictions.

Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.

We are not saints. We know we make mistakes, but at least our heart is with the right cause.

Every leader should have enough humility to accept, publicly, the responsibility for the mistakes of the subordinates he has himself selected and, likewise, to give them credit, publicly, for their triumphs.

Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.