A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.

But because I am a Catholic, and no Catholic has ever been elected president, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured - perhaps deliberately, in some quarters less responsible than this. So it is apparently necessary for me to state once again not what kind of church I believe in - for that should be important only to me - but what kind of America I believe in.

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

While we shall negotiate freely, we shall not negotiate freedom.

Our deep spiritual confidence that this nation will survive the perils of today - which may well be with us for decades to come - compels us to invest in our nation's future, to consider and meet our obligations to our children and the numberless generations that will follow.

First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.

Peace is a process, a way of solving problems