The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.

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.

While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.

For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew— or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.

I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.

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.

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.