The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

Those [presidents] who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both partners, without domination or unfair advantage. Together we have been partners in adversitylet us also be partners in prosperity.

Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.