The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.

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

Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future of themselves and their children will, I hope, become so universal and so insistent that no man, no government anywhere, can withstand it.

By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.

America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.