Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.

I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do I look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test - even by indirection.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened ... It ought to to be possible, in short, for every American to enjoy the privileges of being American without regard to his race or his color.