Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.

There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.

I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to an America which will steadily raise the standards of artistic accomplishment and which will steadily enlarge cultural opportunities for all of our citizens. And I look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world not only for its strength but for its civilization as well.

The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.

Mr. Nixon has, in the last seven days, called me an economic ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest. I've just confined myself to calling him a Republican. But he says that is getting low.

You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.

Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave.