Success has many fathers.
If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist, in economic, political, scientific, and all the other kinds of struggles, as well as the military, then the peril to freedom will continue to rise.
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.
Ask not that the journey be easy; ask instead that it be worth it.
No one gains from fair employment law and legislation if there is no employment to be had.
Wherever there is smoke there is a good smoke machine.
A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.
I am flatly opposed to appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican. Whatever advantages it might have in Rome – and I’m not convinced of these – they would be more than offset by the divisive effect at home.
Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets.
Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.
There’s an old saying. Never send a boy to do a man’s job, send a lady.
Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to illuminate man’s place in the universe, and as the source of understanding of man’s own nature.
The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.
I do not speak for my church on public matters; and the church does not speak for me.
A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.
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.
Most cities are nouns. New York’s a verb.
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 Texas?
We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.
The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.