Let us remember with devotion that the flag we love and honor is the flag of freedom that flew in victory at Yorktown, the flag the United States Marines raised on Mount Suribachi, the flag Francis Scott Key saw by the dawn's early light. Long may it wave.

May each of you have the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute works that will leave the world a little better for your having been here.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.

Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used.

We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began in England, and the gifts of science and technology have made life much easier for us, they have also made it more dangerous. There are threats now to our freedom, indeed to our very existence, that other generations could never even have imagined. There is first the threat of global war. No president, no Congress, no prime minister, no parliament can spend a day entirely free of this threat. If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.