Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx - first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Government being Big Brother.

We believe faith and freedom must be our guiding stars, for they show us truth, they make us brave, give us hope, and leave us wiser than we were.

Trust the people -- that is the crucial lesson of history.

To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.

Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?