I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote - where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference - and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

While we shall negotiate freely, we shall not negotiate freedom.

Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

If all of you had voted the other way - there's about 5500 of you here tonight - I would not be the President of the United States.