Someone always needs rescuing, yet there's only one person who ever seems to understand you. It's a lot like being Lassie.

The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.

To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support - to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective - to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak - and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.

While it may be theoretically possible to demonstrate the risks inherent in any treaty... the far greater risk to our security are the risks of unrestricted testing, the risks of a nuclear arms race, the risks of new nuclear powers.