We can have faith in the future only if we have faith in ourselves.

We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.

A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.