The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of a worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth - but neither shall we shrink from that risk any time it must be faced.

[High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage...the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[...]Our present tax system...reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking.

I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Unless liberty flourishes in all lands, it cannot flourish in one.