"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."

"If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty."

"It's astonishing that a sophisticated nation like Canada has dragged its feet for so long while the rest of the world has adapted its copyright laws to the digital age. The digital music world is moving on - Canada must move with it, or its whole music culture will suffer."

"A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten."

"We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living."

"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."

"America has tossed its cap over the wall of space."

"My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man"

"England is a nation of shopkeepers"

"England is a nation of shopkeepers."

"There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else."

"There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else."

"One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other."

“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.

You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.

Be courageous! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation.... Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward!

The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... If such war-making weapons are developed, they should - but only for purposes of peaceful experimentation....

"America I've given you all and now I'm nothing... I can't stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb."

"In my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night"

"America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry."

"America, why are your libraries full of tears?"