American families, like your families, Sir Patrick, devoutly want peace.

What began 30 years ago as an experiment to provide economic justice for the farmer has now become a tested instrument in the continuing experiment each generation performs to demonstrate the vitality of our democracy.

A great public servant in the early days of the republic of my State said: 'Education is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free men will recognize, and the only ruler that free men will accept.'

This Nation has really always been an experiment--an experiment in the capacity of a whole people, ruling its rulers, to deal with changing peril and with shifting expectations.

Belief in education is, of course, not a new belief.

I plan to take your proceedings and read them myself and to circulate them to every office of Government concerned with this subject.

We are far too easily satisfied when we know that a child has a desk in a classroom with a teacher to instruct him.

We asked you to come here to stimulate some fresh thinking, not just talk about old ideas.

It is what happens inside that classroom that really counts, and that is finally what is really important.

We need education which will stimulate and which will energize the free spirit, rather than to crush it and dampen it, as is so often true.

Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind.

I not only learned, but I taught, and I saw for myself how the light of learning could brighten the path of the humble.

It really was the instrument which took a boy from the countryside of Texas and opened to him the boundless dreams and the opportunities of American life.

This central faith remains an unchallenged tenet of the American way of life.

Peace among all nations, peace for all mankind.

This is the house of all of the American people.

The roads we walk and the lanes we sail lead toward a more prosperous world.

Our yearning for peace and for justice on this earth, and our quest for the dignity of all mankind, are not the yearning and quest of one heart but of 190 million.