I am told that tens of thousands of prayer meetings are being held on this day; for that I am deeply grateful. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good, I think, if on each inaugural day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

I've heard drug experts say they believe if penicillin were discovered today, the FDA wouldn't license it.

Freedom prospers only where the blessings of God are avidly sought, and humbly accepted.

The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.

We remember those who were called upon to give all a person can give, and we remember those who were prepared to make that sacrifice if it were demanded of them in the line of duty, though it never was. Most of all, we remember the devotion and gallantry with which all of them ennobled their nation as they became champions of a noble cause.

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