A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

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

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

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