This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Change is like fire- if uncontrolled, it will consume us.

To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.

The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace.

Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.

I read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors customarily rendered to a foreign ruler. I am grateful for the honors; but something within me rebelled at that word 'foreign'. I say this because when I have been in Canada, I have never heard a Canadian refer to an American as a 'foreigner'. He is just an 'American'. And, in the same way, in the United States, Canadians are not 'foreigners', they are 'Canadians'. That simple little distinction illustrates to me better than anything else the relationship between our two countries.