Power Confuses Itself With Virtue And Tends

With Respect To The Creation Of The Program, I Introduced The Bill In September 1945, Immediately After The End Of The War With Japan, In August Of That Year. A Number Of Considerations, Of Course, Entered Into My Decision To Introduce The Bill, Growing From My Own Experience As A Rhodes Scholar And The Experiences Our Government Had Had With The First Word War Debts, [herbert] Hoover's Efforts In Establishing The Belgian-american Education Foundation After World War I, [and] The Boxer Rebellion Indemnity.

Education Is A Slow Moving But Powerful Force

The Preservation Of Our Free Society In The Years And Decades To Come Will Depend Ultimately On Whether We Succeed Or Fail In Directing The Enormous Power Of Human Knowledge To The Enrichment Of Our Own Lives And The Shaping Of A Rational And Civilized World Order....it Is The Task Of Education, More Than Any Other Instrument Of Foreign Policy To Help Close The Dangerous Gap Between The Economic And Technological Interdependence Of The People Of The World And Their Psychological, Political And Spiritual Alienation.

It Is Amazing How Soon One Becomes Accustomed To The Sound Of Ones Voice, When Forced To Repeat A Speech Five Or Six Times A Day. As Election Day Approaches, The Size Of The Crowds Grows; They Are More Responsive And More Interested; And One Derives A Certain Exhilaration From That Which, Only A Few Weeks Before, Was Intensely Painful. This Is One Possible Explanation Of Unlimited Debate In The Senate.

The American Public Has Become So Conditioned By Crises, By Warnings, By Words, That There Are Few, Other Than The Young, Who Protest Against What Is Happening.