 We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. |
| My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. |
| There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. |
| The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. |
| My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. |
| Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. |
| Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. |
| We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. |
| 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. |
| Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. |
| Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. |
| Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. |
| Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. |
| The best road to progress is freedom's road. |
| Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be a s big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. |
| 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. |
| Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas. |
| I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. |
| Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. |
| Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us. |
