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

Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice.

Now, as never before, hundreds of millions of men and women-who had formerly believed that stoic resignation in the face of hunger and disease and darkness was the best one could could do-have come alive with a new sense that the means are at hand with which to make for themselves a better life.

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

Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

Be aware of danger-but recognize the opportunity