The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on . . .

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.

From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our Nation and our people to the Almighty.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

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.

Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on.