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A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny that!
If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.'
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
Our alliance is born, not of fear, but of hope. It is an alliance that advances what we are for, as well as opposes what we are against.
We must seek, above all, a world of peace; a world in which peoples dwell together in mutual respect and work together in mutual regard.
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
A country is as strong, really, as its citizens. And I think that mental and physical health - mental and physical vigor - go hand in hand.
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.
Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties.
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
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!'
For to save mankind's future freedom, we must face up to any risk that is necessary. We will always seek peace - but we will never surrender.
It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States.
This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind and physical fitness.
When I was growing up I had three wishes. I wanted to be a Lindbergh-type hero, learn Chinese, and become a member of The Algonquin Round Table.
For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
We don't want to be like the leader in the French Revolution who said There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.
Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth.
No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.
The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.
The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for America.
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.
An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures.
I am fully aware of the fact that the Democratic Party, by nominating someone of my faith, has taken on what many regard as a new and hazardous risk.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities.
There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter.
Food is strength, and food is peace, and food is freedom, and food is a helping hand to people around the world whose good will and friendship we want.
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.
In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.
Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. This is not the case.
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.
What church I go to on Sunday, what dogma of the Catholic Church I believe in, is my business; and whatever faith any other American has is his business.
There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and famine have withered a field of ideas.
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.
For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.
Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames.
Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.
The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.
If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.