Our handicaps exist only in our minds.

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.

General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted that he was Georges Clemenceau.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Democracy can thrive only when it enlists the devotion of those whom Lincoln called the common people. Democracy can hold that devotion only when it adequately respects their dignity by so ordering society as to assure to the masses of men and women reasonable security and hope for themselves and for their children.

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

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.