“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.”

“We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.”

“The best road to progress is freedom's road.”

“It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.”

“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”

“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”

“Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.”

“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.”

“I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“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.”

“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.”

“For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.”

“A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.”

“If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.”

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

“Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.”

“There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.”

“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.”

“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.”

“It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.”

“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.”

“We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.”

“The pay is good and I can walk to work.”

“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.”