“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”

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

“Ask not what your country can do for you,but ask what you can do for your country.”

“I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.”

“There is inherited wealth in this country and also inherited poverty.”

“Do not pray for easy times, pray to be stronger. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your tasks.”

“We, in this country, in this generation, are - by destiny rather than by choice - the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.”