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

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Why are we proud? We are proud, first of all, because from the beginning of this Nation, a man can walk upright, no matter who he is, or who she is. He can walk upright and meet his friend - or his enemy; and he does not fear that because that enemy may be in a position of great power that he can be suddenly thrown in jail to rot there without charges and with no recourse to justice. We have the habeas corpus act, and we respect it.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself ... There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law, the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak.

As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures.