A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future.

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace."

Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Never, ever ever ever ever give up.

We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.