When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.

An unfolding technology has increased our economic strength and added to the convenience of our lives. But that same technology-we know now-carries danger with it. From the great smoke stacks of industry and from the exhausts of motors and machines, 130 million tons of soot, carbon and grime settle over the people and shroud the Nation's cities each year. From towns, factories, and stockyards, wastes pollute our rivers and streams, endangering the waters we drink and use.

For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.

It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon the light, points of time where one course of action ends and another begins.

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.