We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

Failure has no friends.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.

People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today.

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

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

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.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president s.

The New Frontier I speak of 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 intent to ask of them.

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.