We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.

Our deep spiritual confidence that this nation will survive the perils of today - which may well be with us for decades to come - compels us to invest in our nation's future, to consider and meet our obligations to our children and the numberless generations that will follow.

There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.

I am grateful to those Members of Congress who worked so diligently to guide the Equal Pay Act through. It is a first step. It affirms our determination that when women enter the labor force they will find equality in their pay envelopes.

We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.

Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.