We have found that man’s hold on the globe is a precarious one. We always thought that our destiny was cradled in another Hand. And when Mr. Khrushchev reported that the Cosmonauts
We are stronger, and therefore have more responsibility, than any nation on earth; we should make the first effort, the greatest effort, and the last effort to control nuclear weapons. We can and must begin immediately.
An America piled high with gold, and clothed in impenetrable armor, yet living among desperate and poor nations in a chaotic world, could neither guarantee its own security nor pursue the dream of a civilization devoted to the fulfillment of man.
My faith is that Americans are not an inert people. My conviction is that we are rising as a people to confront the hard challenges of our age—and that we know that the hardest challenges are often those within ourselves
We have not been getting the truth about America to the world, particularly to the young intellectuals in the foreign nations, and particularly in those countries which are just growing, which have just come onto the world scene. Meanwhile, Communism, armed not with truth but with intensive, attractive propaganda, has been turning them against us.
There is a passage in Deuteronomy, in which the Lord says, “And now, O Israel, I hearken unto the statutes and unto the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them.” Commenting on this, the great Rabbis of the Talmudic Age saw its special meaning: “not learning,” they said, “but doing is the principal thing.”
We must reach out as well to those who have been passed by in the past—those already out of school, the fathers and mothers of young children, the unemployed and the abandoned of this entire nation.
We are finding that it is not enough to feed and clothe and house a man—or even to give him work. Instead we are finding that the most important thing is to help men to help themselves. This is the most difficult task of all.
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