Good Night, And Good Luck.

This Instrument [radio] Can Teach. It Can Illuminate, Yes, And It Can Even Inspire. But It Can Do So Only To The Extent That Humans Are Determined To Use It To Those Ends. Otherwise It's Nothing But Wires And Lights In A Box.

The Politician Is Trained In The Art Of Inexactitude. His Words Tend To Be Blunt Or Rounded, Because If They Have A Cutting Edge They May Later Return To Wound Him.

We're Not Descended From Fearful Men - Not From Men Who Feared To Write, To Speak, To Associate, And To Defend Causes That Were, For The Moment, Unpopular.

I Have Said, And I Believe, That Potentially We Have In This Country A Free Enterprise System Of Radio And Television Which Is Superior To Any Other. But To Achieve Its Promise, It Must Be Both Free And Enterprising. There Is No Suggestion Here That Networks Or Individual Stations Should Operate As Philanthropies. But I Can Find Nothing In The Bill Of Rights Or In The Communications Act Which Says That They Must Increase Their Net Profits Each Year, Lest The Republic Collapse.

Our History Will Be What We Make Of It. If We Go On As We Are, Then History Will Take Its Revenge And Retribution Will Not Limp In Catching Up With Us. So, Just Once In A While Let Us Exhault The Importance Of Ideas And Information.