I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself.

Only by trusting in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

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

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Ever since that time, we have been waging peace. It has had its ups and downs just as the war did.

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

Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.