Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state.

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

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

Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.

We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.