I don't know what the future may hold for me-or for any of us. But I want you to know that I am a man who likes having critics who are not enemies.

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

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

Real assistance is to help people to help themselves. We can't do everything for everybody, but there is room for all who try to make it.

We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government--a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance.