Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

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

I ask that you offer to the political arena, and to the critical problems of our society which are decided therein, the benefit of the talents which society has helped to develop in you. I ask you to decide, as Goethe put it, whether you will be an anvilor a hammer. The question is whether you are to be a hammerwhether you are to give to the world in which you were reared and educated the broadest possible benefits of that education.

We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a new tax incentive for businesses to expand their normal investment in plant and equipment.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.