We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
— John F. Kennedy
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
