And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant, and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity.
My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.
I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.
We had a dog who was named Pushinka, who was given to my father by a Soviet official. And we trained that dog to slide down the slide we had in the back of the White House. Sliding the dog down that slide is probably my first memory.
If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing.
Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave.
But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.
In seeking the help of the Congress and our countrymen, I pledged no easy answers. I pledged, and asked, only toil and dedication. These the Congress and the people have given in good measure.
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmonious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.
Every dollar released from taxation that is spared or invested will help create a new job and a new salary.
At the start of 2005 the idea of downloading a song to a mobile phone was an idea, by the end of the year it was a reality.
The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.
If we fail to encourage physical development and prowess, we will undermine our capcity for thought, for work, and for use of those skills vital to an expanding and complex America.
I suppose if you could have only one thing, it would be that-energy. Without it, you haven’t got a thing.
You’re in there with me. Personally.
We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of a worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth – but neither shall we shrink from that risk any time it must be faced.
Physical Fitness is the basis for all other forms of excellence.
Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something.
I think the success of any school can be measured by the contribution the alumni make to our national life.
I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.