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.

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

...the exchange of students...should be vastly expanded...Information and education are powerful forces in support of peace. Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace.

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

The proudest thing I can claim is that I am from Abilene.

Your country, my country - each is a better and stronger and more influential nation because each can rely upon every resource of the other in days of crisis. Beyond this, each can work and grow and prosper with the other through years of quiet peace.