There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and famine have withered a field of ideas.

Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

Those [presidents] who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.

The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the party of the past. His speeches are generalities from Poor Richard's Almanac. Their platform, made up of left-over Democratic planks, has the courage of our old convictions. Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo-and today there can be no status quo.