I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

The only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future.

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation, or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.

Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts. It must be dynamic, not static, changing to meet the challenge of each new generation. For peace is a process-a way of solving problems.