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.
The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.
Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
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.
Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.
We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
Great crises produce great men and great deeds of courage.
There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.
We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.
I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.