The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies...

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by those who cling to a present which is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement and danger which comes with even the most peaceful progress. This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease...

The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

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

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.