"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."

"Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate."

"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, today, at home and around the world.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that 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.

"A man does what he must-in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all human morality."

"The New Frontier of which I speak 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 intend to ask of them"

"I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon, and safely returning him to earth."

"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."