Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities.
I know there is a God – I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it – if he has a place then I am ready – we see the hand.
Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.
It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one’s golf skill in action. But neither, on the other hand, did he ever bean a Secret Serviceman.
History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.
Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.
Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.
I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.
If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.
Justice delayed is democracy denied.
The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.
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.
We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.
Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad.
In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south.
In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.
The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.