President

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.

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...

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

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.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the...

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact...