The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

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

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people.

I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.

Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.

All of us in all the Americas will be living at the point of a gun.