Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

We are confronted primarily with a moral issue... whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated.

There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of the Presidential office in 1964. This is extremely serious. I think the fate not only of our own civilization, but I think the fate of world and the future of the human race, is involved in preventing a nuclear war.

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

The guiding principle of this Nation has been, is now, and ever shall be IN GOD WE TRUST.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.