No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice

I firmly believe that the future of civilization is absolutely dependent upon finding some way of resolving international differences without resorting to war.

I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.

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

Give us, we pray, the power to discern clearly right from wrong, and allow all our words and actions to be governed thereby, and by the laws of this land. Especially we pray that our concern shall be for all the people regardless of station, race, or calling.

Having established as our goals a lasting world peace with justice and the security of freedom on this earth, we must be prepared to make whatever sacrifices are demanded as we pursue this path to its end.