It is for these reasons that I believe we must expand day-care centers and provide other assistance which I have recommended to the Congress. At present, the total facilities of all the licensed day-care centers in the Nation can take care of only 185,000 children. Nearly 500,000 children under 12 must take care of themselves while their mothers work. This, it seems to me, is a formula for disaster.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.

Neither smiles nor frowns, neither good intentions nor harsh words, are a substitute for strength.

In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.

We support the security of both Israel and her neighbors.