Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind.

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the harsh progress of mankind.

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

Let me declare expressly that in the days when mankind was not yet ashamed of its cruelty, life on earth was more cheerful than it is now that pessimists exist.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

The work of Dr. Salk is in the highest tradition of selfless and dedicated medical research. He has provided a means for the control of a dread disease... by helping scientists in other countries with technical information; by offering to them the strains of seed virus... by welcoming them to his laboratory that they may gain a fuller knowledge... his achievement, a credit to our entire scientific community, does honor to all the people of the United States.