Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

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

This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

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.

If all of you had voted the other way - there's about 5500 of you here tonight - I would not be the President of the United States.

The final and best means of strengthening demand among consumers and business is to reduce the burden on private income and the deterrence to private initiative which are imposed by our present tax system, and this administration pledged itself last summer to an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes to be enacted and become effective in 1963.