We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will talk sense to the American people. But we can hope that fewer people will listen to nonsense. And the notion that this Nation is headed for defeat through deficit, or that strength is but a matter of slogans, is nothing but just plain nonsense.

I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no lobby in Washington.

The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

All over the world, particularly in the newer nations, young men are coming to power--men who are not bound by the traditions of the past--men who are not blinded by the old fears and hates and rivalries-- young men who can cast off the old slogans and delusions and suspicions.

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.