If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
Failure has no friends.
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.