Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept the shibboleth of an unbridgeable gap between those who hire and those who are employed. We miserably fail to challenge the lie that what is good for management is necessarily bad for labor; that for one side to profit, the other must be depressed. Such distorted doctrine is false and foreign to the American scene where common ideals and purpose permit us a common approach toward the common good.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

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

But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.