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

In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

It takes two to make peace.

In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south.

Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe -- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.