It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.

The America to which these Swedish settlers came was a land that needed the hardy qualities they brought. It was not a land that was particularly softhearted towards newcomers, but everyone believed that each should have a fair chance regardless of his origin.

I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes.

Some of my best friends never agree with me politically.

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

It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.