The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.

It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither, on the other hand, did he ever bean a Secret Serviceman.

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

Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures.

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.