We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.

The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward an idea of extension of boundaries.

These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.