We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.
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.
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
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.
When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
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.