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.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.

A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.

Beware not the enemy from 'without' but the enemy from 'within'.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.

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...