I have been a poor chosen this time in place to discuss a topic on which ignorance to offer to bombs and the truth to railing perceived and that is the most important topic on earth peace. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war and frequently the words of the pursuers fall on deaf ears but we have no more urgent task but that is a dangerous defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we have ripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that view. Our problems are man-made, therefore they can be sold by man and man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Man's reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable and we believe they can do it again. World peace like community peace does not require that each man love his neighbor. It requires only that they live together in mutual tolerance submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement. Peace need not be a practice and more need not be inevitable. By defining our no more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all people to see it, to draw hope from it and to move their resistibly towards it. Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts. It must be dynamic, not static, changing to meet the challenge of each new generation. For peace is a process, a way of solving problems, so let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's duty and we are all mortal. The United States as the world knows will never stop a war. We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough, more than enough, a war and hate, a battle pressure. We shall be prepared, if others wish it. We shall be alert to try and stop it. But we shall also do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. We are not helpless before that task, or hopeless of its success, confident and unafraid. We must labor on, not toward the strategy of annihilation, but toward the strategy of peace. The kind of peace that makes life an earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and build a better life for their children. Not merely peace for Americans, but peace for all men and women. Not merely peace in our time, but peace in all time.