Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.

We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.

Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children have to pay interest on it they will pay that interest to themselves. A reasonable internal debt will not impoverish our children or put the Nation into bankruptcy.