Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames.

Ask not what your community can do for you; ask what your community can not do for anyone else.

To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.

One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression--and the other one- third is rocked by the pangs of poverty, hunger and envy. More energy is released by the awakening of these new nations than by the fission of the atom itself.