Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Recognition of the Supreme Being was the first - the most basic - expression of Americanism.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.