I want to see in 1963, and in 1970, and 1980 the best brains we have meeting the most difficult problems that this country has ever faced.

In looking at the natural resources of the United States, I could not return to Washington safely without coming here to Tongue Point.

How many of our children who have talent will not have a chance to use it, will not get to a college or a university?

The free, democratic system of government which places more burdens on the individual than any other system, must depend in its final analysis upon an informed citizenry.

It is, therefore, a pleasure to be able to tell you that both the Department of Defense and the Coast Guard will shortly initiate activities here.

I appreciate the warm welcome, and I can tell you that this area of this State, as well as this State, as well as this country, can continue to look forward with a good deal of confidence and hope.

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.

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.

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

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.

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…