Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.

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

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Voters are more than Catholics, Protestants or Jews. They make up their minds for many diverse reasons, good and bad. To submit the candidates to a religious test is unfair enough - to apply it to the voters is divisive, degrading and wholly unwarranted.

Richard Cromwell was not fit to wear the mantle of his uncle.

I know there is a God - I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it - if he has a place then I am ready - we see the hand.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.