Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.
There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children. Through compassion for the plight of one individual, government fulfills its purpose as the servant of all the people.
You never want to give a man a present when he’s feeling good. You want to do it when he’s down.
We must change to master change.
True poverty does not come from God.
Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation’s most important purpose: to fulfill the individual – his freedom, his happiness, his promise.
There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.
Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.
Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.
Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: “God has favored our undertaking.” God will not favor everything that we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will.
Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
We still seek no wider war.
President Can’t Swim.
Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.
Control of space means control of the world.
I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don’t believe they are talking about the same situation.