I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.

The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough - more than enough - of war and hate and oppression. We shall be prepared if others wish it. We shall be alert to try to stop it. But we shall also do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its success. Confident and unafraid, we labor on - not toward a strategy of annihilation but toward a strategy of peace.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

Success has many fathers.

War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.