My great great-grandfather died at the Alamo.

Then they turned our fleet upside down in Pearl Harbor.

Considering our history, I think it is understandable why my countrymen are puzzled when someone calls us a 'colonialist' power.

We welcome it--for we hear, in that sound, the echo of 1776.

Rural electrification wasn't an isolated event in our history.

I came here tonight to tell you that in the time allotted me, with whatever energy and ability I have, I do not intend for history to repeat itself.

I think that you will find that the historians will record that you lived in a period when we made greater progress in health, education, conservation, and development throughout the world than in any similar period in history.

That is because of this system we have that our forefathers figured out.

The gains since 1954 must be steppingstones to greater fulfillment, not future reminders of what might have been.

This is a moment in which history and hope meet and move on from here as partners.

I believe that the development of the space age will bring the beginning of the longest and greatest boom of abundance and prosperity in the history of man.

Nothing in our proud heritage surpasses the significance of that great struggle for freedom nearly two hundred years ago.

We must never forget Thomas Jefferson's proud and confident declaration of the meaning of the American Revolution in the whole long sweep of human history.

Whenever there is a collision with fate, when history stops for a moment of crisis--it is the doubter who runs from the test of courage--and it is the builder who is firm in the face of fear.

The Continental Congress was the first to pledge that the means of education shall forever be encouraged.

History may well record that we saved liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education.

We never want to go back to the farm-led and farm-fed depression days.

A part of the soul of America remains forever on Bataan and Corregidor.