I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.

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.

Our goal is not victory of might but the vindication of right - not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved.