We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination |
We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad |
We shall need compromises in the days ahead, to be sure. But these will be, or should be, compromises of issues, not principles. We can compromise our political positions, but not ourselves. We can resolve the clash of interests without conceding our ideals. And even the necessity for the right kind of compromise does not eliminate the need for those idealists and reformers who keep our compromises moving ahead, who prevent all political situations from meeting the description supplied by Shaw: "smirched with compromise, rotted with opportunism, mildewed by expedience, stretched out of shape with wirepulling and putrefied with permeation." Compromise need not mean cowardice. ... |
We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes |
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats. |
We will go to the moon. We will go to the moon and do other things, NOT because they are easy but because they are HARD. |
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. |
When asked what I am most proud of, I stick out my chest, hold my head high and state proudly, 'I served in the United States Navy!' |
When power leads man towards 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. |
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. |
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters-one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. |
Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible even with those with whom we most deeply disagree, and this must someday be the basis of world peace and world law |
With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own |
Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed -- and no republic can survive |
You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble |