Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a new tax incentive for businesses to expand their normal investment in plant and equipment.

Those [presidents] who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.

So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof

There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.