For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.

Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities.

If by a "Liberal," they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people - their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties - someone who believes that we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say that I'm a "Liberal."

The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.

There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.

Our deep spiritual confidence that this nation will survive the perils of today - which may well be with us for decades to come - compels us to invest in our nation's future, to consider and meet our obligations to our children and the numberless generations that will follow.

We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.