Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.

The absence of war is not peace.

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

Leadership is getting people to do things that they don't want to do.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

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.

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.