The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies in the protection of economic security.

...Since 1775 the United States Marines have upheld a fine tradition of service to their country. They are doing so today. I am confident they will continue to do so.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny of every kind.

The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.