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

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'

Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.

Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

We've spent half the expenditures, we've wrecked our budget on all these other domestic programs, and the only justification for it, in my opinion, to do it in the pell-mell fashion is because we hope to beat them and demonstrate that starting behind them, as we did by a couple of years, by God, we passed them. I think it would be a helluva thing for us.

With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking his blessing and his help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.