We must abolish nuclear weapons, or they will abolish us.

Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.

No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.

I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers.. I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as a wise man once said: "An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them.

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.

The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.