All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.
The future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people.
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
Every President wants to do right.
While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.
If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.
We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.
When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.
Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.
For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.
Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.
The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.
The best way to begin disarming is to begin-and the United States is ready to conclude firm agreements in these areas and to consider any other reasonable proposal.
Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
You know there is no one in the world I would rather sleep with than Yuki.
There’s something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.
We don’t propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.
If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.
In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.