I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession - to defend it against every thrust from within or without.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future. From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and every rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

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