Every President wants to do right.
Freedom is not enough.
I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.
I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.
In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.