Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
Democracy may not be perfect, but at least I don’t have to build a wall to keep my people in.
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.
Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and human misery. We have the power to make the best generation of mankind in the history of the world.
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.
The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.
I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation, or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.
It is in the American tradition to stand up for one’s rights – even if the new way to stand up for one’s rights is to sit down.
Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.
The great free nations of the world must take control of our monetary problems if these problems are not to take control of us.
A country is as strong, really, as its citizens. And I think that mental and physical health – mental and physical vigor – go hand in hand.
Libraries should be open to all – except the censor.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life.