I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

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

Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.

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.

When I ran for Presidency of the United States, I knew that this country faced serious challenges, but I could not realize - nor could any man realize who does not bear the burdens of this office - how heavy and constant would be those burdens

Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution.

I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice.