We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth....Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River developments, the tallest building in the world, the mightiest battleship.

But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.

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

I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.