US Presidency
1966

So the pledge of Honolulu will be kept, and the pledge of Baltimore stands open to help the men of the North when they have the wisdom to be ready. We Americans must understand how fundamental is the meaning of this second war the war on want. I talked on my ranch last fall with Secretary Freeman, Secretary of Agriculture, and in my office last week with Secretary Gardner, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, making over and over again the same central point: The breeding ground of war is human misery. If we are not to fight forever in faraway places -in Europe, or the far Pacific, or the jungles of Africa, or the suburbs of Santo Domingo then we just must learn to get at the roots of violence. As a Nation we must magnify our struggle against world hunger and illiteracy and disease. We must bring hope to men whose lives now end at two score or less.