The basis of effective government is public confidence.

The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.

I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice.

We can have faith in the future only if we have faith in ourselves.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation can afford to be satisfied. We have the ability, as members of the human race, we have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We only need the will.