 As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. |
| A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. |
| I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times. |
| War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. |
| 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. |
| There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin! |
| We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came. |
| The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. |
| I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians. |
| Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. |
| I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide. |
| All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!" |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. |
| Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. |
| Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. |
| If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. |
| The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. |
| When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were. |
