We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.

I believe the American people are more concerned with a man's views and abilities than with the church to which he belongs. I believe the founding fathers meant it when they provided in Article VI of the Constitution that there should be no religious test for public office. And I believe that the American people mean to adhere to those principles today.

There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.

There is only one rule by which to judge if God is near us or is far away - the rule that God's word is giving us today: everyone concerned for the hungry, the naked, the poor, for those who have vanished in police custody, for the tortured, for prisoners, for all flesh that suffers, has God close at hand. We have the ability, we have the means, and we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth. We need only the will.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

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.