John Quotes
If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.
No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.
When things don't go well they like to blame presidents; and that's something that presidents are paid for.
The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.
There is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space, unless we are prepared to do the work and bear the burdens to make it successful.
I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.
Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.
Every president has taken comfort and courage when told...that the Lord "will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed."
It is no contradiction - the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise consumption by major reduction ofindividualincometaxrates.
An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures.
No one gains from fair employment law and legislation if there is no employment to be had.
The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.
While they came from a variety of religious backgrounds and held a wide variety of religious beliefs, each of our presidents in his own way has placed a special trust in God.
Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.
Bullfight critics row on row Fill the enormous Plaza de toros But only one is there who knows And he is the one who fights the bull.
There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their weeks exercise.
Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new ideas and for a better world, which has made us great.
Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good?
The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.
Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.
There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and famine have withered a field of ideas.
A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income
I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.
I must say that though other days may not be so bright, as we look toward the future, that the brightest days will continue to be those we spent with you here in Ireland.
For to save mankind's future freedom, we must face up to any risk that is necessary. We will always seek peace - but we will never surrender.
The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.
All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.
The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln.
If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.
We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests.
The federal government's most useful role is not to rush into a program of excessive increases in public expenditures, but to expand the incentives and opportunities for private expenditures.
I am fully aware of the fact that the Democratic Party, by nominating someone of my faith, has taken on what many regard as a new and hazardous risk.
A tired nation, said David Lloyd George, is a Tory nation, and the United States today cannot afford to be either tired or Tory.
It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States.
The problem with the American health-care system that it is not working for the American family.
I'm a Catholic, raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has been a huge part of my life. It helped lead me through a war, leads me today.
