History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.

The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.

It is for these reasons that I believe we must expand day-care centers and provide other assistance which I have recommended to the Congress. At present, the total facilities of all the licensed day-care centers in the Nation can take care of only 185,000 children. Nearly 500,000 children under 12 must take care of themselves while their mothers work. This, it seems to me, is a formula for disaster.

I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote - where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference - and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.