Here on earth God's work must surely be our own.
In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would t...
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.
Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it deserves the attention of the United States government and the people.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronge
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
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!
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
Peace is a daily a weekly a monthly process gradually changing opinions slowly eroding old barriers quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace the pursuit must...
When power leads man toward arrogance poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his experience. When po...
Terror is not a new weapon. Throughout history it has been used by those who could not prevail, either by persuasion or example. But inevitably they fail, either because men are not afraid to die for...
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.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must- in spite of personal...
Perhaps the twentieth-century Senator is not called upon to risk his entire future on one basic issue in the manner of Edmund Ross or Thomas Hart Benton. Perhaps our modern acts of political courage d...
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.