Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

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.

Let us not be blind to our differences-but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny that!