In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

The great free nations of the world must take control of our monetary problems if these problems are not to take control of us.

The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough - more than enough - of war and hate and oppression. We shall be prepared if others wish it. We shall be alert to try to stop it. But we shall also do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its success. Confident and unafraid, we labor on - not toward a strategy of annihilation but toward a strategy of peace.

probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.