When asked what I am most proud of, I stick out my chest, hold my head high and state proudly, 'I served in the United States Navy!'

Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution.

Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.

If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist, in economic, political, scientific, and all the other kinds of struggles, as well as the military, then the peril to freedom will continue to rise.

We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.

Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new ideas and for a better world, which has made us great.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.