Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. |
Washington was a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm |
We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it |
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. |
We are not against any man-or any nation-or any system-except as it is hostile to 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 |
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. |
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. |
We choose to go...not because [it is] easy, but because [it is] hard, because that goal will serve to measure and organize the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win. |
We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed. |
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last. |
We in this country, in this generation, are--by destiny rather than choice--the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of "peace on earth, good will toward men." That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: "except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." |
We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that we are only 6 percent of the world's population; that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind; that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity; and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem. |
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth |
We must use time as a tool not as a couch |