We have the means to achieve these victories; now we need only the will.

It will cut the Government's costs of tax collection and enforcements.

I designate the hour beginning in each locality at eleven o'clock in the morning of that day as the time for all Americans to join in prayer.

The tax reduction I will recommend will be another major step toward greater purchasing power for individual Americans, higher production and more jobs, increased initiative and efficiency, and a balanced budget in a balanced economy.

This reduction--more than double the amount that I recommended in January--is possible and desirable because Federal tax revenues, responding, we think, very strongly to our expanding economy, are now expected to be about $1 1/2 billion…

I will recommend a total excise tax cut of approximately $4 billion in amount.

It will reduce the burden of regressive taxation on low and moderate income families.

Hundreds of commodities and services will benefit from the removal or reduction of retail taxes on such items as handbags, luggage, toilet articles, jewelry, and furs.

Those who use our highways, our airways, and our waterways should contribute more adequately, and more equitably, to the cost of building and maintaining the facilities provided for their use by the Federal Government.

Man possesses now the capacity to end war and preserve peace.

It is imperative that you meet the time schedule set by the Budget Director so that we can all know the problems, issues, ideas, and possible alternative approaches early.

I believe the next legislative program must make important progress toward enriching the quality of American life and strengthening our capacity for leadership among peoples devoted to the ideals of a just, decent and peaceful world.

Fiscal prudence and governmental self-discipline encourages rather than retards imperative social progress.

I attach the greatest significance to this Budget 'preview.'

Surely, surely, the works of peace can bring men together in a common effort to abandon forever the works of war!

This is why, on your behalf, I recently proposed a massive, cooperative development effort for all of southeast Asia.

The Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate is authorized to prescribe from time to time regulations, rulings, directions, and instructions to carry out the purposes of this order

Arms can never make us invulnerable, nor our enemies invincible, but the support that we give to education can make freedom irresistible.