Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.

It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.

The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.

We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.

Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense - to protect from violent assault what we already have. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress.

We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.