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

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation.

I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or their national origin - where every citizen is free to think and speak as he pleases and write and worship as he pleases - and where every citizen is free to vote as he pleases, without instructions from anyone, his employer, the union leader or his clergyman.

I have asked the secretary of the treasury to report by April 1 on whether present tax laws may be stimulating in undue amounts the flow of American capital to the industrial countries abroad through special preferential treatment.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

If I don't have a woman every three days or so I get a terrible headache.