Let no one ever think for a moment that national debate means national division.
It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.
Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.
So here is the Great Society. It’s the time – and it’s going to be soon – when nobody in this country is poor.
The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation-must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.
Nothing comes free. Nothing. Not even good, especially not good.
To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake – but for the nation’s sake.
If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.
Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.
Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.
Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.
I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.