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.

I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or their national origin - where every citizen is free to think and speak as he pleases and write and worship as he pleases - and where every citizen is free to vote as he pleases, without instructions from anyone, his employer, the union leader or his clergyman.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

We had a dog who was named Pushinka, who was given to my father by a Soviet official. And we trained that dog to slide down the slide we had in the back of the White House. Sliding the dog down that slide is probably my first memory.

The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.

There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.