To declare a national policy which will encourage productive and enjoyable harmony between man and his environment; to promote efforts which will prevent or eliminate damage to the environment and biosphere and stimulate the health and welfare of man; to enrich the understanding of the ecological systems and natural resources important to the Nation; and to establish a Council on Environmental Quality. - Page 264

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. - Page 86

Now the trumpet summons us again not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need not as a call to battle though embattled we are, but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out, rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny poverty disease and war itself. - Page 171

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future. - Page 181

There are many parts of the globe, indeed, hitherto uncultivated and almost unoccupied; but the right of exterminating, or driving into a corner where they must starve, even the inhabitants of these thinlypeopled regions, will be questioned in a moral view. - Page 139

Behind institutions, behind constitutional forms and modifications, lie the vital forces that call these organs into life and shape them to meet changing conditions. The peculiarity of American institutions is, the fact that they have been compelled to adapt themselves to the changes of an expanding people... - Page 37

On each of the previous occasions the world has then sent that product into large surplus within 5-10 years. The reasons for this are now quite logical and rather technical. In modern conditions of high elasticity of both production and substitution, plus surprisingly equal lead times for many investment projects, we now generally do create overproduction of whatever politicians and pundits 5-10 years earlier thought would be most urgently needed, because both consensusseeking governments and profitseeking... - Page 67

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door! - Page 79

America continue increasing, which they certainly will do, though not with the same rapidity as formerly, the Indians will be driven further and further back into the country, till the whole race is ultimately exterminated and the territory is incapable of further extension. - Page 140

Our energy resources are not inexhaustible," the President said, "yet we are permitting waste in their use and production. In some instances, to achieve apparent economies today, future generations will be forced to carry the burden of unnecessarily high costs and to substitute inferior fuels for particular purposes. - Page 241

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