We celebrate the past to awaken the future.

If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing

I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.

If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must motivate any true artist, makes him aware that our nation falls short of its highest potential. I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist.

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.

We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.