If some of my judgments were wrong - and some were wrong - they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation.

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.

The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong."

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

It is in that spirit, the spirit of '76, that I ask you to rise and join me in a toast to Chairman Mao, to Premier Chou, to the people of our two countries, and to the hope of our children that peace and harmony can be the legacy of our generation to theirs.