Our deep spiritual confidence that this nation will survive the perils of today - which may well be with us for decades to come - compels us to invest in our nation's future, to consider and meet our obligations to our children and the numberless generations that will follow.

All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

Failure has no friends.

The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.