To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support - to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective - to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak - and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Few nations do more than the United States to assist their least fortunate citizens-to make certain that no child, no elderly or handicapped citizen, no family in any circumstances in any State, is left without the essential needs for a decent and healthy existence. In too few nations, I might add, are the people aware of the progressive strides this country has taken in demonstrating the humanitarian side of freedom. Our record is a proud one-and it sharply refutes those who accuse us of thinking only in the materialistic terms of cash registers and calculating machines.

If we are to go only halfway or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty... it would be better to not go at all.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.