I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

In the field of world policy; I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.

Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

To reach a port we must set sail

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.