A tired nation, said David Lloyd George, is a Tory nation, and the United States today cannot afford to be either tired or Tory.

The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.

The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today.

Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

Don't ask 'Why', ask instead, 'Why not'.

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.