I have asked the secretary of the treasury to report by April 1 on whether present tax laws may be stimulating in undue amounts the flow of American capital to the industrial countries abroad through special preferential treatment.

We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a new tax incentive for businesses to expand their normal investment in plant and equipment.

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

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.

If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.