There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our economy is expanding more slowly than in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

I do not speak for my church on public matters; and the church does not speak for me.

It is not our wealth that built our roads, but it is our roads that built our wealth.

First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart permit it to take part in the complicated and increasingly sophisticated decisions that pour not only upon the President and upon the Congress, but upon all the citizens who exercise the ultimate power.