The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities.

Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry; he is going to stand for Parliament. Well, perhaps she was rightbut if more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place to live on this Commencement Day of 1956.

But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together. In too many of our cities today, the peace is not secure because freedom is incomplete." (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)