I have seen in many places housing which has been developed under government influences, but I have never seen any projects in which governments have played their part which have fountains and statues and grass and trees, which are as important to the concept of the home as the roof itself.

I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no lobby in Washington.

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.