First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.

The problems with this world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who can dream of things that never were.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

Events of October 1962 indicated, as they had all through history, that control of the sea means security. Control of the seas can mean peace. Control of the seas can mean victory. The United States must control the seas if it is to protect your security.

While they came from a variety of religious backgrounds and held a wide variety of religious beliefs, each of our presidents in his own way has placed a special trust in God.

There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country