A journey to Thousand miles begins with one step
Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.
When things don't go well they like to blame presidents; and that's something that presidents are paid for.
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.
I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war... But we have no more urgent task.