Even Now I Wonder What I Might

We're Approaching The End Of A Bloody Century Plagued By A Terrible Political Invention, Totalitarianism. Optimism Comes Less Easily Today, Not Because Democracy Is Less Vigorous, But Because Democracy's Enemies Have Refined Their Instruments Of Repression.

I Call Upon The Scientific Community In Our Country, Those Who Gave Us Nuclear Weapons, To Turn Their Great Talents Now To The Cause Of Mankind And World Peace: To Give Us The Means Of Rendering These Nuclear Weapons Impotent And Obsolete.

There Are Many Well-meaning People Today Who Work At Placing An Economic Floor Beneath All Of Us So That No One Shall Exist Below A Certain Level Or Standard Of Living, And Certainly We Don't Quarrel With This. But Look More Closely And You May Find That All Too Often These Well-meaning People Are Building A Ceiling Above Which No One Shall Be Permitted To Climb And Between The Two Are Pressing Us All Into Conformity, Into A Mold Of Standardized Mediocrity.

The Signs Of The Vietnam War Protestors Said "make Love Not War!" It Didn't Seem To Me That They Were Capable Of Either.

Democracy Is Not A Fragile Flower; Still It Needs Cultivating.