Our alliance is born, not of fear, but of hope. It is an alliance that advances what we are for, as well as opposes what we are against.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation can afford to be satisfied. We have the ability, as members of the human race, we have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We only need the will.

I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to an America which will steadily raise the standards of artistic accomplishment and which will steadily enlarge cultural opportunities for all of our citizens. And I look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world not only for its strength but for its civilization as well.

The world has been close to war before - but now man, who has survived all previous threats to his existence, has taken into his mortal hands the power to exterminate the entire species some seven times over.

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

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.