One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

Whether I serve one or two terms in the Presidency, I will find myself at the end of that period at what might be called the awkward age-too old to begin a new career and too young to write my memoirs.

Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

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

First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.

Few nations do more than the United States to assist their least fortunate citizens-to make certain that no child, no elderly or handicapped citizen, no family in any circumstances in any State, is left without the essential needs for a decent and healthy existence. In too few nations, I might add, are the people aware of the progressive strides this country has taken in demonstrating the humanitarian side of freedom. Our record is a proud one-and it sharply refutes those who accuse us of thinking only in the materialistic terms of cash registers and calculating machines.