Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

Blight has descended on our regulatory agencies - and a dry rot, beginning in Washington, is seeping into every corner of America - in the payola mentality, the expense account way of life, the confusion between what is legal and what is right.

Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and human misery. We have the power to make the best generation of mankind in the history of the world.

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

For to save mankind's future freedom, we must face up to any risk that is necessary. We will always seek peace - but we will never surrender.