The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.

Our responsibility is one of decision, for to govern is to choose.

We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will talk sense to the American people. But we can hope that fewer people will listen to nonsense. And the notion that this Nation is headed for defeat through deficit, or that strength is but a matter of slogans, is nothing but just plain nonsense.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.

A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income

The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race.