You know, if a child has a good mother, and most of them do have, and the first three grade teachers are good teachers, who understand the moral outlook as we see it, there is no danger of that child being anything but a good citizen, no matter what happens after the first 8 or 10 years.
Remarks to Members of the National Committee for the Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth.
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