Society

Clean streets and clean rivers--could anything really be more basic to a Great Society?

We live, then, at a spectacular moment in the ages of man.

The need for food transcends all the divisions man has created for himself.

The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.

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

Our dizzying ability to discard the old and to create the new...all these and more are the challenges that surround you.

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

Too many of our fellow citizens do not get the education or the training that they need to become productive members of our society.

No society can be truly great--and no economy can be truly prosperous--if high, long-duration unemployment for some exists side by side with low, short-term unemployment for others.

The underutilization of American women continues to be the most tragic and the most senseless waste of this century.

We shall renew neither ourselves, nor society, nor a troubled world, unless we share a vision of something worth saving.

The deep divisions among us are diminishing.

Our society was built on respect for law and order and we mean to maintain it.

The frontier's story, like America's, is that people aren't free for very long unless they are also responsible.

Peace is the most important subject to every man, woman, and child in this hall.

Now, that is the kind of a world that we want.

Yes, to you good members of this honorable and responsible union there is work for you to do, for us to do--work to build this good society better, work to make this strong country the foundation of a great and a compassionate civilization.

Hence from Plymouth Rock until this day, Americans have been careful about the welfare of their fellow man.