This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must some time enter; and the summons is more loud and piercing as the event of which it warns us is at less distance. To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; but to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.

Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.