The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?

We are bound together by the most powerful of all ties, our fervent love for freedom and independence, which knows no homeland but the human heart.

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

We came from many roots, and we have many branches.

In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.

Let America symbolize humanity's struggle to conquer nature and master technology. The time has now come for our Government to facilitate the individual's control over his or her future - and of the future of America.

My goal is for a cooperative world at peace, using its resources to build, not to destroy.