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

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.

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

All you have to do is look up on the Fourth of July.

And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.