Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

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

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

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

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.