Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you in life.
Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price bear any burden meet any hardship support any friend oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Our growing softness our increasing lack of physical fitness is a menace to our security.
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
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.
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies to secret oaths and to secret proceedings.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
History is a relentless master. It has no present only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
When power leads man toward arrogance poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts poetry cleanses.
If we cannot now end our differences at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
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.
We would like to live as we once lived but history will not permit it.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption or both.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
Forgive your enemies but never forget their names.
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
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.