There is no other airport in the world which serves so many people and so many airplanes. This is an extraordinary airport. . . it could be classed as one of the wonders of the modern world.

To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

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

Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.

If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.

Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.

There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.