The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

The great free nations of the world must take control of our monetary problems if these problems are not to take control of us.

The day before my inauguration President Eisenhower told me, You'll find that no easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them. I found that hard to believe, but now I know it is true.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests.

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

While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.