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.

Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep "some freedoms" while giving up others.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights, once a source of disunity and civil war, is now a point of pride for all Americans. We must never go back. There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country.

Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.

Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.

We intend to keep the peace - we will also keep our freedom.