Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it was on a battlefield or a baseball diamond, in a speech or fighting for a cause, that they had courage that they would stand up, that they could be counted on.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Oh no, oh no... don't lift me, don't lift me.

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.