Our people must learn to use this gift of time, and that means another challenge for tomorrow's schools.

Laws are only designs for achievement.

The first is poverty.

This is how a Great Society is really built: brick by brick, and in the toil and the noise of each day.

Our burdens are heavy and will grow heavier.

We also want school breakfasts for children who would otherwise start their day with empty stomachs.

They may delay us, but I warn them and I pledge you they will never deter or or defeat us.

I am not describing a distant Utopia, but I am describing the kind of education which must be the great and the urgent work of our time.

I am returning with my approval your proposal to increase the interest rate on all United States Series E and H Savings Bonds.

I pledge to you tonight that the Federal Government will not be a silent partner in this enterprise.

A year ago today I wrote you of my desire to improve the Federal Government's employee safety programs.

We cannot hold freedom less dear in Asia than in Europe or be less willing to sacrifice for men whose skin just happens to be a different color!

We must build the Great Society in our cities, and in our countryside, and in our classrooms.

Even this latter figure represents only a small part of the total recovery programs provided by the Federal Government under the various disaster relief authorities.

Therefore I am sending Congress five top priority requests.

I want those great benefits to continue.

In other words, while we are winning a war, we must get at the defects that caused it.

My budget this year proposes a $10 billion investment in education and training.

We can do no less to bar inflation, improve fiscal management, and keep faith with millions of investors.

I should now like to receive by May 1, 1966, from the head of each executive department and agency a summary report of developments in 1965.

It is hard to teach a hungry child.

I said that we must build the Great Society in our cities, and in our countryside, and in our classrooms.

Who--and what--are their targets?

I believe that this increase will insure a fair rate to all those patriotic Americans who buy U.S. Savings Bonds.

And I came up here to Atlantic City tonight to tell you that this is only the beginning of what we're going to do in the field of education.