Future

The months ahead will not be easy ones.

I wish I could tell you that what you have fought for, peace in the world, is just around the corner, but there will be some long and difficult days ahead.

Could anything really be more vital to our children?

You are on the rim of a new era.

So I leave today with a deep sense of confidence in the future of Asia and the Pacific.

May that past be only prologue to richer years yet to come.

Your example offers us hope for the future.

I am sure that it will continue way into the future--and that it will always be, as Your Majesty stated, mutually rewarding.

I believe that in the lifetime of men now living, the human race will emerge into the sunlit uplands of peace and freedom.

And we can do it in our lifetime.

This is a very good time, I think, to be a young man.

Will man be the master or the servant of his inventions?

Before long, you will be able to span this continent--or the Atlantic Ocean--in 2 hours or less.

I do not believe that you want it said of your generation that you committed social suicide.

The gains since 1954 must be steppingstones to greater fulfillment, not future reminders of what might have been.

Now we must go forward.

This is a magnificent day for the Nation's Capital and for the millions of Americans who will visit our Capital in the years to come.

Because of the actions we take this year, our children, I think, will come of age in a modern society.