We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.
America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
I’m always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.
Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.
While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.
Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.
And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.
Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.
Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames.
The mere absence of war is not peace.
I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.
What church I go to on Sunday, what dogma of the Catholic Church I believe in, is my business; and whatever faith any other American has is his business.
Neither smiles nor frowns, neither good intentions nor harsh words, are a substitute for strength.