Never let your fears hold you back from pursuing your hopes.

[High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage...the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[...]Our present tax system...reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking.

The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project...will be more exciting, or more impressive to mankind, or more important...and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.

I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.