“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.”
“If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.”
“Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.”
“Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.”
“Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.”
“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.”
“Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.”
“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.”
“There are no easy answers’ but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.”
“We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”
“While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.”
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”
“To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.”
“There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.”
“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”