Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.

Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.

But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high to permit the customary passions of political debate. We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future. As Winston Churchill said on taking office some twenty years ago: if we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.