Lyndon Johnson: “We are not the sole captain of the ship.”

Your reward--and it is coming--will be seen in the faces of children who will come down the road that you have helped to open.

We have come to know that we Americans have a profound interest in the independence of men and women at home and men and women all around the world.

America's aims are simple and straightforward.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-nine and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-third.