The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength - and strength alone.

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

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

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.

Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.