You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.

There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.

There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

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 the success of liberty.

To those people 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.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.