Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.

A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.

If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the Straits of Tiran would be closed. The right of innocent, maritime passage must be preserved for all nations

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Every citizen, regardless of his race, creed, or color, is entitled to equal justice.

The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled.