I ask particularly that those of you who are now in school will prepare yourselves to bear the burden of leadership over the next 40 years here in the United States, and make sure that the United States - which I believe almost alone has maintained watch and ward for freedom - that the United States meet its responsibility. That is a wonderful challenge for us as a people.

When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.

There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter.

There's an old saying. Never send a boy to do a man's job, send a lady.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Je me sens vraiment entre amis. (I feel that I am truly among friends.)

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.