We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or the last.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.