If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities ... We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

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

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite.

As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.