Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

I strongly believe in Scouting. ... It's a source of great strength to us.

Whatever the political affiliation of our next President, whatever his views may be on all the issues and problems that rush in upon us, he must above all be the chief executive in every sense of the word.

And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant, and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity.

Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

Success has many fathers.