To each generation belongs the task of advancing freedom; of guarding it jealously; of nurturing it; of strengthening its institutions.

No one of us who lived on that terrible November day will ever be able to forget what happened then or what we lost there.

Recognizing that fulfillment of our goals will require the continuation of the joint effort beyond 1971, I wish to inform the Conference--and through you, your respective governments--that the United States will be prepared to extend…

AS I STATED on August 17, on the fourth anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, our vital alliance is perhaps the greatest adventure that this hemisphere has embarked upon since Columbus reached our shore five centuries ago.

I also pledged my administration to helping all of our countries meet the goals of the alliance.

In determining the scope of the United States effort, we will want to examine carefully with you at that time the requirements of the hemisphere, in the light of progress made through self-help measures and the contributions which by then…

And that is what American greatness means to me.

And I can take great pride in saying the same thing: There is no man in the United States Senate that has supported the program of the people of this country or the program of the President of this country more than the senior Senator from…

They are possible because we believe in them.

America's greatness is the helping hand to the child of the slum.

America's greatness is equality of race, respect of religion, and blindness of color.

America's greatness is bringing the miracle of modern medicine to every humble citizen of this land.

And if we believe in them, and we unite ourselves, then we can do them.

America's greatness is willingness to lend a helping hand to our neighbors from other lands who seek freedom here in our shores.

America's greatness is training for the unemployed.

There is no man in the House of Representatives who has supported your people and your President more loyally than your Congressman, Henry B. Gonzalez.

America's greatness is guaranteeing to every child all the education that he or she can take.

We want to help build a world where reason will replace rockets.