probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.

The best way to progress is the path of freedom.

Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons - new and uncertain nations - new pressures of population and deprivation.

Whether I serve one or two terms in the Presidency, I will find myself at the end of that period at what might be called the awkward age-too old to begin a new career and too young to write my memoirs.

But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "Stay, thou art so fair." And our liberty, too, is endangered if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future.