Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.
Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.
Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.
With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking his blessing and his help, but knowing that here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.
Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased – not a reduced – flow of revenues to the federal government.
There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.
So, let us not be blind to our differences – but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.
The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for America.
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.