Recognition of the Supreme Being was the first - the most basic - expression of Americanism.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

Our economy is the result of millions of decisions we all make every day about producing, earning, saving, investing, and spending.

May we grow in strength — without pride in self. May we, in our dealings with all peoples of the earth, ever speak truth and serve justice. And so shall America — in the sight of all men of good will — prove true to the honorable purposes that bind and rule us as a people in all this time of trial through which we pass.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Beware the military-industrial complex.

Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.