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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

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

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

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

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

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.