When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.

Our efforts have brought new hope to all mankind. We have beaten back despair and defeatism. We have saved a number of countries from losing their liberty. Hundreds of millions of people all over the world now agree with us, that we need not have war-that we can have peace.

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation. We do not go to war for gain or for territory; we go to war for principles, and we produce young men like these. I think I told every one of them that I would rather have that medal, the Congressional Medal of Honor, than to be President of the United States.

We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.