What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say.

We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.

It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~ it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.

More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.