Americans never quit.

It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past...

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.

I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.