With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking his blessing and his help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

Now, as never before, hundreds of millions of men and women-who had formerly believed that stoic resignation in the face of hunger and disease and darkness was the best one could could do-have come alive with a new sense that the means are at hand with which to make for themselves a better life.

To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.

Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. This is not the case.

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?

There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.