That is the kind of America in which I believe. And it represents the kind of Presidency in which I believe - a great office that must neither be humbled by making it the instrument of any one religious group nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding its occupancy from the members of any one religious group. I believe in a President whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the Nation or imposed by the Nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power. And this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be part of it-we mean to lead it.

Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.