The credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.

A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny that!

No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart permit it to take part in the complicated and increasingly sophisticated decisions that pour not only upon the President and upon the Congress, but upon all the citizens who exercise the ultimate power.

Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.

We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day

We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.

Someone always needs rescuing, yet there's only one person who ever seems to understand you. It's a lot like being Lassie.