The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.

The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.

Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession - to defend it against every thrust from within or without.

Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.