To Be A Statesman, You Must First

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.

Some New Machinery With Adequate Powers Must Be Created Now If Our Fine Phrases And Noble Sentiments Are To Have Substance And Meaning For Our Children.

We Have The Power To Do Any Damn Fool Thing We Want To Do, And We Seem To Do It About Every Ten Minutes.

We Would Be Deliberately Violating The Fundamental Obligations We Assumed In The Act Of Bogota Establishing The Organization Of American States.

Finally, The Program Aims, Through These Means, To Bring A Little More Knowledge, A Little More Reason, And A Little More Compassion Into World Affairs And Thereby To Increase The Chance That Nations Will Learn At Last To Live In Peace And Friendship.