The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe. When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades. All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner.

Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter.

But because I am a Catholic, and no Catholic has ever been elected president, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured - perhaps deliberately, in some quarters less responsible than this. So it is apparently necessary for me to state once again not what kind of church I believe in - for that should be important only to me - but what kind of America I believe in.

Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.