We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

I believe the American people are more concerned with a man's views and abilities than with the church to which he belongs. I believe the founding fathers meant it when they provided in Article VI of the Constitution that there should be no religious test for public office. And I believe that the American people mean to adhere to those principles today.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.