Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

That is the kind of America in which I believe. And it represents the kind of Presidency in which I believe - a great office that must neither be humbled by making it the instrument of any one religious group nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding its occupancy from the members of any one religious group. I believe in a President whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the Nation or imposed by the Nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition and both are necessary. I am not asking your newspapers to support the Administration, but I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. For I have complete confidence in the response and dedication of our citizens whenever they are fully informed.

But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.