Quotes on Profiles In Courage

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.

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

Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

The true democracy, living and growing and inspiring, puts its faith in the people - faith that the people will not simply elect men who will represent their views ably and faithfully, but will also elect men who will exercise their conscientious judgment - faith that the people will not condemn those whose devotion to principle leads them to unpopular courses, but will reward courage, respect honor, and ultimately recognize right.

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.