“Children are our most valuable natural resource.”
“Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.”
“Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.”
“About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”
“Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.”
“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
“Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.”
“The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.”
“In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.”
“Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.”
“In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.”
“Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.”
“We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.”
“My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.”