A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny that!

If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist, in economic, political, scientific, and all the other kinds of struggles, as well as the military, then the peril to freedom will continue to rise.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.