Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

The only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future.

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.

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

Democracy may not be perfect, but at least I don't have to build a wall to keep my people in.

An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits

Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

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

A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.

Ask not what your community can do for you; ask what your community can not do for anyone else.

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.

Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.

I would encourage every American to walk as often as possible. It's more than healthy; it's fun.

Neither smiles nor frowns, neither good intentions nor harsh words, are a substitute for strength.

We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

Peace does not rest in charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of the people.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.

I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.

The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln.

Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.

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

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership.

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.

I suppose if you could have only one thing, it would be that-energy. Without it, you haven't got a thing.

While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.

My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.

I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.

I think the success of any school can be measured by the contribution the alumni make to our national life.

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