We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty... All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin... And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier.

Someone always needs rescuing, yet there's only one person who ever seems to understand you. It's a lot like being Lassie.

There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and famine have withered a field of ideas.

Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a democratic legislative body, accurately represented the nation.