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.

We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

The Republican Party can lead any person to believe that their promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line – no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop floor.

Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry; he is going to stand for Parliament. Well, perhaps she was rightbut if more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place to live on this Commencement Day of 1956.