This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
A country is as strong, really, as its citizens. And I think that mental and physical health – mental and physical vigor – go hand in hand.
There’s a plot in this country to enslave every man, woman, and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot.
I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
It’s only when they join together in a forward movement that this country moves ahead...
Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.
This country was founded by men and women who were dedicated or came to be dedicated to two propositions; first, a strong religious conviction, and secondly a recognition that this conviction could flourish only under a system of freedom.
Last year, more Americans went to symphonies than went to baseball games. This may be viewed as an alarming statistic, but I think that both baseball and the country will endure.
I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.
We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.
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.
Only in winter can you tell which trees are truly green. Only when the winds of adversity blow can you tell whether an individual or a country has steadfastness.
For I can assure you that we love our country, not for what it was, though it has always been great – not for what it is, though of this we are deeply proud – but for what it someday can, and, through the efforts of us all, someday will be.
I have asked the secretary of the treasury to report by April 1 on whether present tax laws may be stimulating in undue amounts the flow of American capital to the industrial countries abroad through special preferential treatment.
When I ran for Presidency of the United States, I knew that this country faced serious challenges, but I could not realize – nor could any man realize who does not bear the burdens of this office – how heavy and constant would be those burdens.
The leadership of the American Legion has not had a constructive thought for the benefit of this country since 1918.
We may not be the best conditioned team in the country, but our players think they are.