“We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!”
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
“The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.”
“A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.”
“Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.”
“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”
“The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet.”
“We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.”
“We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.”
“The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.”
“In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.”
“When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.”
“If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.”
“Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.”
“We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.”
“Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.”
“It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree.”
“Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.”
“In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.”
“In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.”
“I never know when I press these whether I am going to blow up Massachusetts or start the project.”
“True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.”
“Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.”
“We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.”
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
“There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.”
“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.”
“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”
“Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.”
“Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.”