I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

I have seen in many places housing which has been developed under government influences, but I have never seen any projects in which governments have played their part which have fountains and statues and grass and trees, which are as important to the concept of the home as the roof itself.

To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of artthis is one of the fascinating challenges of these days.

In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.