And I will say to you simply, what I want for the next 4 years is that the next 4 years will be the best 4 years in this Nation's history.

This Nation to which he gave so much in his lifetime will miss Jackie Robinson, but his example will continue to inspire us for years to come.

This Administration is determined that more Americans should be able to share more fully in the natural wealth of our Nation.

Our Nation has suffered more than enough already from the intrusion of violence into its political processes.

His magnificent contribution to making this a great and good Nation will be remembered by the American people long after the petty carpings and vicious criticisms of his detractors are forgotten.

The enactment of this legislation marks another important step in our efforts to provide a better life for those who have given so much to preserve and protect our Nation.

this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom ....

So nothing has been done, and emergency has followed emergency, at incalculable cost to millions of innocent bystanders and to the nation itself.

America has long been the wealthiest nation in the world.

That courage will remain as an inspiration to the Nation long after his dream becomes part of the reality of American life.

We are the richest nation in the history of the world and will remain so.

They deserve the best their Nation can offer them because they are the best of this Nation.

I have come tonight to ask this Congress and this Nation to resolve that issue: to meet our commitments at home and abroad-to continue to build a better America--and to reaffirm this Nation's allegiance to freedom.

This Nation must make an all-out effort to combat crime.

In a short time I am going across the street a few hundred yards to light the Nation's Christmas tree.

We are in a time of testing for our Nation, a time of uncertainty for our country.

If your education falters or fails, everything else that we attempt as a Nation will fail.

The very name of your great nation means, in my own language, 'land of the free.'