There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
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.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
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.
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.
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.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.