Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

I think it is appropriate that we pay tribute to this great constitutional principle which is enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution: the principle of religious independence, of religious liberty, of religious freedom.

Should I become President...I will not risk American lives...by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time through an unwise commitment that is unwise militarily, unnecessary to our security and unsupported by our allies.