Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

The [next] priority for change the first element of a new politics for the United States is in our policy toward the world. Too much and for too long, we have acted as if our great military might and wealth could bring about an American solution to every world problem.

All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

If communist unions ever gain a position to exercise influence in the transport lanes of the world, the free world will have suffered a staggering blow.

The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.