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

Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain.

How can we appraise a proposal if the terms hurled at our ears can mean anything or nothing, and change their significance with the inflection of the voice? Welfare state, national socialism, radical, liberal, conservative, reactionary and a regiment of others ... these terms in today's usage, are generally compounds of confusion and prejudice. If our attitudes are muddled, our language is often to blame. A good tonic for clearer thinking is a dose of precise, legal definition.

We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

There can be no peace without law.

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