The federal government's most useful role is not to rush into a program of excessive increases in public expenditures, but to expand the incentives and opportunities for private expenditures.

In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration, and when peace comes we will gladly convert not our swords into plowshares, but our bombs into peaceful reactors, and our planes into space vessels. "Pursue peace," the Bible tells us, and we shall pursue it with every effort and every energy that we possess. But it is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.

The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.