If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.

Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, but joined with other free nations, we can ... assist the developing nations to throw off the yoke of poverty.

Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.

Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry; he is going to stand for Parliament. Well, perhaps she was rightbut if more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place to live on this Commencement Day of 1956.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.