Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Freedom is not enough.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.