Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

But if the life will not be easy, it will be rich and satisfying. For every young American who participates in the Peace Corps-who works in a foreign land-will know that he or she is sharing in the great common task of bringing to man that decent way of life which is the foundation of freedom and a condition of peace.

Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.

I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.

Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to illuminate man's place in the universe, and as the source of understanding of man's own nature.

For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.