Civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity'is always subject to proof.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all—including his own career—for the national good?

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.

This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of eveiy man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

1 am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age—the search for the freedom and self-fulfillment of man.

There can be no progress if people have no faith in tomorrow.

The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.

Whatever the political affiliation of our next President, whatever his views may be on all the issues and problems that rush in upon us, he must above all be the chief executive in every sense of the word.