We never think that Washington has a monopoly on wisdom.
Now we know that it is not enough.
Eduction is the only dictator that free men will ever recognize and the only ruler that free men will accept.
If we are to step into the future without stumbling, we must produce trained citizens in this country.
It looks easy now, but we spent more than 20 years in the Congress battling for this breakthrough.
We must not lose all we have gained by reckless effort, by rewriting our laws, or by playing for partisan political adva...
I am glad to come here today and to see the foundations that you in Maryland are building, the foundations that you have...
Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.
We must smooth the transition from school to work.
Dissolving ancient feuds and settling controversies is integral to progress.
We must provide for the practical, the vocational.
The whole world now looks to science to help it meet its growing need--and that need is great for food, for better healt...
They gave us the nuclear bomb--but they also started us on the course of peaceful nuclear power.
The new ultraminiature devices which guide our spaceships and are giving us new medical tools are all the products of th...
Maybe somehow, some way, sometime there will be somebody willing to sit down at the table and talk instead of kill, disc...
And I ask myself that every morning and I reflect on it every evening.
I want--more than any human being in all the world--to see the killing stopped.
I want to negotiate. I want a political solution. I want--more than any human being in all the world--to see the killing...
