Our responsibility is one of decision, for to govern is to choose.

The final and best means of strengthening demand among consumers and business is to reduce the burden on private income and the deterrence to private initiative which are imposed by our present tax system, and this administration pledged itself last summer to an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes to be enacted and become effective in 1963.

Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.

I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.

As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on from the reassuring repetition of stale phrases to a new, difficult, but essential confrontation with reality. For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie-deliberate, contrived and dishonest-but the myth-persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Mythology distracts us everywhere.

Real men stay faithful. They don't have time to look for other women because they're too busy looking for new ways to love their own.