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

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

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.

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.