"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal"
"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"
"We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth"
"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought"
"If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity"
"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war"
"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"
"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"
"Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas"
"In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there"
"The pay is good and I can walk to work"
"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life"
"No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle"
"If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's"
"The United States has to move very fast to even stand still"
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining"
"The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds"
"There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!"
"The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just"
"I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose"
"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 hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant"
"I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times"
"I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it"
"I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours"
"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!""
"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed"
"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"
"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"
"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on"
"A child miseducated is a child lost"
"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity"
"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were"
"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"
"For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future"
"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction"
"Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us"
"Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House"
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men"
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth"
"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic"
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future"
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them"
"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy"
