Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals, and to imagine that together we can do great things. In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's-license age than at voting age.

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.