For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment; for the nation, it is a path to a society that is not only free but civilized; and for the world, it is the path to peace - for it is education that places reason over force.

I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out.

Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must some time enter; and the summons is more loud and piercing as the event of which it warns us is at less distance. To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; but to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.