John F. Kennedy

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves.

The very word Secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society.

Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.

To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation – the right to breathe air as nature provided it -- the right of future generations to a healthy existence?" (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)

probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color

To those whom much is given, much is expected.