US Presidency
1967

I believe that our people do not want to quit -though the task is great, the work hard, often frustrating, and success is a matter not of days or months, but of years and sometimes it may be even decades. I have come here tonight to discuss with you five ways of carrying forward the progress of these last 3 years. These five ways concern programs, partnerships, priorities, prosperity, and peace. First, programs. We must see to it, I think, that these new programs that we have passed work effectively and are administered in the best possible way. Three years ago we set out to create these new instruments of social progress. This required trial and error and it has produced both. But as we learn, through success and failure, we are changing our strategy and we are trying to improve our tactics. In the long run, these starts -some rewarding, others inadequate and disappointing- are crucial to SUCCESS. One example is the struggle to make life better for the less fortunate among us.