“Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.”

Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.

We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.

Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.

As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.

A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.

Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.

A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge – it is as immortal as the heart of man.

Man, like the bridge, was designed to carry the load of the moment, not the combined weight of a year at once.