Never give up on anybody.
I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
National isolation breeds national neurosis.
To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.
Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.
The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.
It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.
There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.
The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.
Never answer a question from a farmer.
There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
The President is the people's lobbyist.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received .
The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life – the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
