Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.