I want to express a warm thanks from a citizen from the other side of the country for your warm welcome today.

So I think the chance for an educated graduate of this school to serve his State and country is bright.

I hope that all of you who are students here will recognize the great opportunity that lies before you in this decade, and in the decades to come, to be of service to our country.

The fact is that almost in the last 30 years the world of knowledge has exploded.

I can assure you that there is no area of life where you will have an opportunity to use whatever powers you have, and to use them along more excellent lines, bringing ultimately, I think, happiness to you and those whom you serve.

Knowledge is power, a saying 500 years old, but knowledge is power today as never before, not only here in the United States, but the future of the free world depends in the final analysis upon the United States and upon our willingness to…

There is really not much use in having science and its knowledge confined to the laboratory unless it comes out into the mainstream of American and world life.

The measures authorized by this act cannot accomplish all the goals we have envisioned.

More talented but needy students will now be able to undertake the long and expensive training for careers in medicine, dentistry, and osteopathy.

This will enable the Congress to consider further measures after some experience with the program has accumulated.

I do hereby call upon the people of the United States to observe the week beginning October 20, 1963, as National Forest Products Week

These islands are part of our American heritage.

The precise manner in which these resources are used, land and water, is of the greatest importance.

In any case, I appreciate very much your coming out and welcoming us back.

I would like to sign this act because it is one of the most significant health measures passed by the Congress in recent years.

I pledge you the cooperation of the Federal Government.

With the accelerated national effort initiated by this act, better use will be made of the wealth of new medical knowledge now being gathered in research laboratories throughout the land to maintain and improve the health of our growing…

But it is a good beginning, a firm foundation on which to build in the future.

The construction of urgently needed facilities for training physicians, dentists, nurses, and other professional health personnel can now begin.

It gives me great satisfaction to approve the Health Professions Educational Assistance Act of 1963, the culmination of 14 years of effort by many devoted and dedicated citizens.

We will be able to provide to those most frequently in need of medical care--the aged, the chronically ill, the mentally ill, and the mentally retarded--more of the kind of attention that modern medicine makes possible.

It will make your community a happier place; it will make you a happier person, and in the real sense your community is your country.

I hope this year, therefore, that you will join in this great national effort, this great national crusade through the United Way and give.

There are several million Americans who are voluntarily working to maintain this program.

This is a time of great change in our country--economic and social and scientific life.