Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.

The best way to begin disarming is to begin-and the United States is ready to conclude firm agreements in these areas and to consider any other reasonable proposal.

A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and frigidity of age; and in age we must labour to recall the fire and impetuosity of youth; in youth we must learn to respect, and in age to enjoy.

If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom asks more than it gives; and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.