Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind and physical fitness.

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.

But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

Our responsibility is one of decision, for to govern is to choose.

But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together. In too many of our cities today, the peace is not secure because freedom is incomplete." (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)