We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of a worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth - but neither shall we shrink from that risk any time it must be faced.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exc…

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are; but it is one of the most consistent with our character and our courage as a nati…

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.