Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a new tax incentive for businesses to expand their normal investment in plant and equipment.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Let us not be blind to our differences-but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life.

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.