We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

I have asked the secretary of the treasury to report by April 1 on whether present tax laws may be stimulating in undue amounts the flow of American capital to the industrial countries abroad through special preferential treatment.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.