A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and hands at the behest of his head.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.

The only thing we have to fear...is audiovisual glitches at our annual event.

The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.