"You can always go into another business. I have never taken a picture of an accountant."

"The only unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable"

"The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises -- it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intent to ask of them."

"It's astonishing that a sophisticated nation like Canada has dragged its feet for so long while the rest of the world has adapted its copyright laws to the digital age. The digital music world is moving on - Canada must move with it, or its whole music culture will suffer."

"If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable."

"We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work"

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

"If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty."

"If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help."

"We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!"

"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."

"Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future"

"If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity."

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."

"With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own"

"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."

"Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions."

"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

"I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose."

"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."

"In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there."

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

"I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times."

"I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it."

"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."

"Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."

"We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world--or to make it the last."

"The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."

"When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."

"To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of art - this is one of the fascinating challenges of these days"

"The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God"

"We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last."

"If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up."

"It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple"

"My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world."

"I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die."

"The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet."

"I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them."

"No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors."

"...you look at me like an emergency"

"A thinking woman sleeps with monsters that beak which grips her, she becomes."

"War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure."

"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."

"Our intention was to cover our costs. We're not shy of any surplus, but it was not the aim. After 20 years, Band Aid is still active, and we are still funding projects -- this will simply help us fund even more projects."

"The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, "What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable."

"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."

"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it."

"The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion."