The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer, and make tax avoidance rather than market factors a prime consideration in too many economic decisions.

Those [presidents] who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

If we could ever competitively, at a cheap rate, get fresh water from saltwater, ..(this) would be in the long-range interests of humanity which could really dwarf any other scientific accomplishments.

Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. This is not the case.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support - to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective - to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak - and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.