"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."

"Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future."

"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."

"The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth."

"Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom."

"The best road to progress is freedom's road."

"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."

"Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."

"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."

"The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose - and is a test to the quality of a nation's civilization."

"I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times."

"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."

"Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable."

"Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it deserves the attention of the United States government and the people."

"There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texa...s? We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."

"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."

"When power narrows the area of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence."

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."

"And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news--that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent."

"The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds."

"Too often we . . . enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."

"I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide."

"I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart as the source of national compassion... for liberalism is not so much a party creed as it is an attitude of mind and heart, a faith in man's ability through the experiences of his reason and judgment to increase for himself and his fellow men the amount of justice and freedom and brotherhood which all human life deserves."

"To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."

"All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'"

"If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for dive."

"Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing."

"If we are strong our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak words will be no help."

"The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened."

"The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy."

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."

"Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce."

"We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it."

"Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm."

"My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight."

"Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism."

"In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that power under human control. The challenge may be our salvation. As we begin to master the destructive potentialities of modern science, we move toward a new era in which science can fulfill its creative promise and help bring into existence the happiest society the world has ever known."

"The human mind is our fundamental resource."

"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war."

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."

"Peace is a process - a way of solving problems."

"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."

"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""

"I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant."

"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."

"I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth."

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."