The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.

I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.

Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. This is not the case.

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe. When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades. All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner.

As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both partners, without domination or unfair advantage. Together we have been partners in adversitylet us also be partners in prosperity.