Some Men See What Is,

All Do Not Develop In The Same Manner, Or At The Same Pace. Nations, Like Men, Often March To The Beat Of Different Drummers, And The Precise Solutions Of The United States Can Neither Be Dictated Nor Transplanted To Others. What Is Important Is That All Nations Must March Toward Increasing Freedom; Toward Justice For All; Toward A Society Strong And Flexible Enough To Meet The Demands Of All Its Own People, And A World Of Immense And Dizzying Change.

Every Dictatorship Has Ultimately Strangled In The Web Of Repression It Wove For Its People, Making Mistakes That Could Not Be Corrected Because Criticism Was Prohibited.

Every Time We Turn Our Heads The Other Way When We See The Law Flouted, When We Tolerate What We Know To Be Wrong, When We Close Our Eyes And Ears To The Corrupt Because We Are Too Busy Or Too Frightened, When We Fail To Speak Up And Speak Out, We Strike A Blow Against Freedom And Decency And Justice.

Our Future May Lie Beyond Our Vision, But It Is Not Completely Beyond Our Control. It Is The Shaping Impulse Of America That Neither Fate Nor Nature Nor The Irresistible Tides Of History, But The Work Of Our Own Hands, Matched To Reason And Principle, That Will Determine Our Destiny. There Is Pride In That, Even Arrogance, But There Is Also Experience And Truth. In Any Event, It Is The Only Way We Can Live.

Together, We Can Make Ourselves A Nation That Spends More On Books Than On Bombs, More On Hospitals Than The Terrible Tools Of War, More On Decent Houses Than Military Aircraft.