When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
~ John F. Kennedy
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
The pay is good and I can walk to work.
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.
In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
