We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the future of our nation's sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not our military preparedness - for armed might is worthless if we lack the brainpower to build world peace; not our productive economy - for we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of government - for freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.

What convinces is conviction.

The time has come when we cannot be so careless. Unless we do better, we may suffer through a stark emergency of the environment. We may create a hostile world: a world to bruise ourselves against; a world of sprawling cities, unplanned or badly planned; a world whose water is full of sludge, whose winds are full of soot; a world whose landscape has been totally neglected, stripped, marred, and wasted. All of this need not happen if we choose well, and particularly if we plan well and if we act well.

At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.