Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a democratic legislative body, accurately represented the nation.

We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

While much remains to be done to achieve full equality of economic opportunity-for the average woman worker earns only 60 percent of the average wage for men-this legislation is a significant step forward.

We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.