Fortunately for us and our world, youth is not easily discouraged. Youth with its clear vista and boundless faith and optimism is uninhibited by the thousands of considerations that always bedevil man in his progress. The hopes of the world rest on the flexibility, vigor, capacity for new thought, and the fresh outlook of the young.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.

It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence.

Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on.