Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change.

Richard Cromwell was not fit to wear the mantle of his uncle.

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.