1961
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress who cannot help themselves.
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
In the United Nations we are striving to establish a rule of law instead of a rule of force. In that forum and elsewhere around the world our deeds will speak for us.
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
We often scoff at the figures cited by the Communist countries showing that 96 or 99 percent of their citizens participate in elections. But what must our attitude be, in a democracy, toward registration figures showing that far less than a majority of the citizens in some states are even eligible to vote?
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
In the words of the old saying, every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
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Address Delivered Before the Joint Defense Appeal of the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, Chicago, Illinois
Ours is a time when many things are just too big to be grasped.
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Speech at the Conference of UPI Editors and Publishers, Washington, D. C.
I have a deep awareness of the role that the press plays in our society. I firmly believe that freedom of information is one of the most important weapons we have in the great struggle for freedom now going on around the world.
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
It is my conviction that there are few areas in our law which more urgently demand reform than our present unfair system of choosing the immigrants we will allow to enter the United States. It is a source of embarrassment to us around the world. It is a source of loss to the economic and…
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Speech at the National Conference of Christians and Jews Dinner, Cleveland, Ohio
While our scientists strive to lead the way to the moon, other Americans are helping new nations to decide their own destiny and keep their newly-won independence, for the race won in outer space is meaningless if we fail in our efforts to extend the cause of freedom around the globe.
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Address, Portland City Club, Portland, Oregon
The rule of law in an open society still is a revolutionary ideal throughout much of the world. Our strength to transpose this ideal into reality throughout the world must depend over the years on our dedication to it at home.
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
The road ahead is full of difficulties and discomforts. But as for me, I welcome the challenge, I welcome the opportunity and I pledge my best effort—all I have in material things and physical strength and spirit to see that freedom shall advance and that our children will grow old under the rule of law.
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
Our goal is to assist local communities in their efforts to coordinate and develop their resources of preventing delinquency. The Federal Government can and must provide the leverage for work that no agency or community could ever hope to do alone.
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