Throughout our history Americans have put their faith in God and no one can doubt that we have been blessed for it. The earliest settlers of this land came came in search of religious freedom. Landing on a desolate shoreline, they established a spiritual foundation that has served us ever since.

Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

I usually never walk by a microphone.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.

Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.