If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.

Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.

The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.

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.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Unless we progress, we regress.