But our efforts have only begun.

Yes, we have made progress.

Today we can say objectively that more has been done in the Government in the past 2 years than in the previous 200 years to meet the challenge of mental retardation.

Our goal and our purpose is peace; peace with honor, peace with justice, peace under freedom.

The road ahead is hard but hopeful.

It is a very great honor and a very proud privilege, Mr. Chancellor, to have you in our midst this evening.

America's progress toward a society of decency has been marked and measured by our attitudes toward the role and toward the rights of women.

The equal pay law moves us toward that goal.

We must and we shall keep moving forward toward a great and decent and just society for all, regardless of race or religion or sex.

Let's open the door wider for all just as we have opened it today for women.

When Thomas Jefferson was our Minister to France, before becoming Vice President and President, he wrote a letter home, in which he said: '...All the world is now politically made.'

This is a good day for our country, and, I am sure, a very proud day for all of you.

For a generation, Americans have struggled to keep the ambitions of nations from erupting into the annihilation of nuclear war.

I would like briefly, today, to mention three problems which menace man's welfare and will threaten it even when armed destruction and war are things of the past.

We are going ahead in our country to bring an end to poverty and to racial injustice.

It is good to have you here in the White House today.

Your destiny will not be a faceless and thoughtless existence in a dull and dreary society.

You have the potential to excel even more in the citizenship of your country of 1974 or 1984 or 1994.