The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.

I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no lobby in Washington.

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.

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the country, some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

Unless liberty flourishes in all lands, it cannot flourish in one.