You're Happiest While You're Making

Even Government By The Consent Of The Governed, As In Our Own Constitution, Must Be Limited In Its Power To Act Against Its People; So That There May Be No Interference With The Right To Worship, Or With The Security Of The Home; No Arbitrary Imposition Of Pains Or Penalties By Officials High Or Low; No Restrictions On The Freedom Of Men To Seek Education Or Work Or Opportunity Of Any Kind, So That Each Man May Become All He Is Capable Of Becoming.

For There Is Another Kind Of Violence, Slower But Just As Deadly, Destructive As The Shot Or The Bomb In The Night. This Is The Violence Of Institutions; Indifference And Inaction And Slow Decay. This Is The Violence That Afflicts The Poor, That Poisons Relations Between Men Because Their Skin Has Different Colors. This Is A Slow Destruction Of A Child By Hunger, And Schools Without Books And Homes Without Heat In The Winter.

The Future Does Not Belong To Those Who Are Content With Today, Apathetic Toward Common Problems And Their Fellow Man Alike, Timid And Fearful In The Face Of Bold Projects And New Ideas. Rather, It Will Belong To Those Who Can Blend Passion, Reason And Courage In A Personal Commitment To The Great Enterprises And Ideals Of American Society.

I Think We Can End The Divisions Within The United States. What I Think Is Quite Clear Is That We Can Work Together In The Last Analysis. And That What Has Been Going On With The United States Over The Period Of That Last Three Years, The Divisions, The Violence, The Disenchantment With Our Society, The Divisions - Whether It's Between Blacks And Whites, Between The Poor And The More Affluent, Or Between Age Groups, Or In The War In Vietnam - That We Can Work Together. We Are A Great Country, An Unselfish Country And A Compassionate Country. And I Intend To Make That My Basis For Running.

Too Often We Honor Swagger And Bluster And The Wielders Of Force; Too Often We Excuse Those Who Are Willing To Build Their Own Lives On The Shattered Dreams Of Others.