We've spent half the expenditures, we've wrecked our budget on all these other domestic programs, and the only justification for it, in my opinion, to do it in the pell-mell fashion is because we hope to beat them and demonstrate that starting behind them, as we did by a couple of years, by God, we passed them. I think it would be a helluva thing for us.

We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.

Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

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

Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth.