Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals.

Now, as never before, hundreds of millions of men and women-who had formerly believed that stoic resignation in the face of hunger and disease and darkness was the best one could could do-have come alive with a new sense that the means are at hand with which to make for themselves a better life.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

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