Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.

If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

The great free nations of the world must take control of our monetary problems if these problems are not to take control of us.

This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere.