Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.

Those [presidents] who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.

Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color

We can have faith in the future only if we have faith in ourselves.

I dont think that unless a greater effort is made by the Government to win popular support that the war can be won out there. In the final analysis, it is their war. They are the ones who have to win it or lose it. We can help them, we can give them equipment, we can send our men out there as advisers, but they have to win it, the people of Viet-Nam, against the Communists.

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.

It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus.