The driving force of a nation lies in its spiritual purpose, made effective by free, tolerant but unremitting national will.

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.

The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks.

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River

The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.

The only thing we have to fear...is audiovisual glitches at our annual event.