I also want to take cognizance of the fact that this flight was made out in the open with all the possibilities of failure, which would have been damaging to our country's prestige. Because great risks were taken in that regard, it seems to me that we have some right to claim that this open society of ours which risked much, gained much.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Foreign aid is a method by which the United States maintains a position of influence and control around the world

I think it is appropriate that we pay tribute to this great constitutional principle which is enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution: the principle of religious independence, of religious liberty, of religious freedom.

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