I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure.