The United States ought to be able to choose for its President anybody that it wants, regardless of the number of terms he has served. That is what I believe.

I have got the utmost faith in the long-term common sense of the American people. Therefore, I don't think there should be any inhibitions other than those that were in the 35-year age limit and so on. I think that was enough, myself.

In Washington's day the task of the people was to create and weld together a nation. In Lincoln's day the task of the people was to preserve that Nation from disruption from within. In this day the task of the people is to save that Nation and its institutions from disruption from without.

Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.

The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.

Why is equality so assiduously avoided? Why does white America delude itself, and how does it rationalize the evil it retains?