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.

The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.