“ If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. ”

“ The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. ”

“ Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security. ”

“ Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. ”

“ 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 path of surrender, or submission. ”

“ In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it. ”

“ I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians. ”

“ Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place. ”

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

“ There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair. ”