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Speech delivered at the 10th Anniversary Convocation for the Center for Study of Democratic Institutions of the Fund for the Republic, New York City

January 22, 1963

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New York, NY

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—like the Bolshevik pilots of the early twenties—reported seeing “no signs of God,” we can only suggest that they aim—with the rest of mankind––a little higher. In the meantime, there is work to do here on earth—to that day when our Creator renders unto man what is man’s.