We must change to master change.

As man increases his knowledge of the heavens, why should he fear the unknown on earth? As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witness to human folly.

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

A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children. Through compassion for the plight of one individual, government fulfills its purpose as the servant of all the people.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

A Presidents hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.

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.