“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”
“I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.”
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.”
“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.”
“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.” *
“Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.”
“Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.”
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”
“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.”