You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.

I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.

I dream of things that are not and ask why not.

Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to young people around the world I am impressed not by the diversity but by the closeness of their goals, their desires and their concerns and their hope for the future.

At the heart of that western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man...is the touchstone of value, and all society, all groups, and states, exist for that person's benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any western society.

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

Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.