Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.