06/06/1965
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"The best hope for the future of any country rests with its children."
"The arts and the humanities belong to the people, for it is, after all, the people who create them."
"I urge each community to study the needs of its schools and to use all the resources at its command to make equal educational opportunity a reality for all Americans."
"This new bill, creating the National Foundation for the Arts and the Humanities, gives us the power to turn some of those dreams and ideas into reality."