We are a Nation of differences, and the values and principles that protect those differences are the source of a unity far more lasting and strong than any contrived harmony could ever be.

The National Medal of Science symbolizes that from one individual's freedom to be different comes achievement to bless all of US.

The productive capacity of American agriculture can and should produce enough food and fiber to provide for: 1. domestic needs, 2. commercial exports, 3. food aid to those developing countries that are determined to help themselves, 4…

I urge all who can help to join us.

The power of the sun is in our hands.

We shall not take that course.

The present distribution of Federal civil rights responsibilities clearly indicates that the activities of the Community Relations Service will fit most appropriately in the Department of Justice.

The program I present today is designed to bring about that change.

We recognize those accomplishments today by conferring on these men the National Medal of Science, the highest tribute their Government can pay them.

I urge Congress to consider and debate these suggestions thoroughly and wisely in the hope and belief we can from them fashion a program that will keep free men free, and at the same time share our leadership and agricultural resources…

But candor requires that I warn you the time is not far off when all the combined production, on all of the acres, of all of the agriculturally productive nations, will not meet the food needs of the developing nations–unless present…

One new element in today’s world is the threat of mass hunger and starvation.

Hunger poisons the mind.

The key to victory is self-help.

Placing the Community Relations Service within the Justice Department will enhance the ability of the Justice Department to mediate and conciliate and will insure that the Federal Government speaks with a unified voice in those tense…

Everyone wishes to have the truth on his side, but it is not everyone that sincerely wants to be on the side of truth.

We must encourage a truly international effort to combat hunger and modernize agriculture.

It destroys hope.