It is still a fact that our common frontier grows stronger every year, defended only by friendship.

Pessimism never won any battle.

I think of going back to the sports field again, and let's take a baseball game. Well, you have cracked out a grounder and you put in your last ounce of energy and you just happen to make first base. But you don't stop there. First base is the beginning. Now you call on all your alertness, your skill, your energy - and you count on your teammates, you count on the people that are working with you. And the purpose of that getting on first base was to get you around to count a run.

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

Only by trusting in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.