Peace does not rest in charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of the people.

The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.

I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied.

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.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people.

Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power. And this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be part of it-we mean to lead it.