The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.

I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so.

Lets talk to one another instead of about one another.

We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.

All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?

The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.