You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.

We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.

You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.

In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

It is an unfinished society that we offer the world-a society that is forever committed to change, to improvement and to growth, that will never stagnate in the certitude of ideology or the finalities of dogma.

The [next] priority for change the first element of a new politics for the United States is in our policy toward the world. Too much and for too long, we have acted as if our great military might and wealth could bring about an American solution to every world problem.

All do not develop in the same manner, or at the same pace. Nations, like men, often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated nor transplanted to others. What is important is that all nations must march toward increasing freedom; toward justice for all; toward a society strong and flexible enough to meet the demands of all its own people, and a world of immense and dizzying change.