Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.

Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts - including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.