My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

If my church attempted to influence me in a way which was improper or which affected adversely my responsibilities as a public servant sworn to uphold the Constitution, then I would reply to them that this was an improper action on their part. It was one to which I could not subscribe.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.