New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.

A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!

As Commander-in-Chief, I take pleasure in commending the reading of the Bible to all who serve in the Armed Forces of the United States. Throughout the centuries, men of many faiths and diverse origins have found in the Sacred Book words of wisdom, counsel, and inspiration. It is a fountain of strength...an aid in attaining the highest aspiration of the human soul.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.