In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.

You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament.

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is.

Change is the law of life and of relations between nations. When two great peoples such as ours, energetic and optimistic, live side by side in all the diversity that freedom offers, change is rapid and brings in its wake problems, sometimes frictions.