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

Your country, my country - each is a better and stronger and more influential nation because each can rely upon every resource of the other in days of crisis. Beyond this, each can work and grow and prosper with the other through years of quiet peace.

Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.

For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

It is only common sense to recognize that the great bulk of Americans, whether Republican or Democrat, face many common problems and agree on a number of basic objectives.

Memory should be the starting point of the present.