Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.

Since becoming President, I have come to know that the finest of Americans we have abroad today are the missionaries of the cross. I am humiliated that I am not finding this out until this late day the worth of foreign missions and the nobility of the missionaries.

Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.