1961
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
The problem between the white and colored people is a problem for all sections of the United States. And as I have said, I believe there has been a great deal of hypocrisy in dealing with it.
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Law Day Address, University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
You may ask, will we enforce the civil rights statutes?
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Excerpt from Voice of America Broadcast
My grandfather came to this country many years ago. He was brought up in Boston and when he went out to look for a job there were signs on many stores that no Irish were wanted. Now after some 40 or 50 years, an Irish Catholic is President of the United States
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Address at the Joint Defense Appeal of the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, Chicago, Illinois
I have been drawn to the Civil War, as have many Americans, because it was a climactic time in our history; a time of incredible courage and bravery; a time when the American people faced a strange and bitter crisis and emerged united and resolved to continue the historic struggle of free men to achieve…
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
Crime, violence in the streets and the dissolution of families and personalities are not eliminated by calling them evil and blaming them on “some other” party. Nor are they eliminated by sloughing them off onto “some other” level of government. We begin by accepting the blame and the responsibility, not by displacing or disregarding them.…
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
In too many major communities of our country, organized crime has become big business. It knows no state lines. It drains off millions of dollars of our national wealth, infecting legitimate business, labor unions and even sports. Tolerating organized crime promotes the cheap philosophy that everything is a racket. It promotes cynicism among adults. It…
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Speech at the National Conference of Christians and Jews Dinner, Cleveland, Ohio
The great challenge to all Americans—indeed all free men and women— is to maintain loyalty to truth; to maintain loyalty to free institutions; to maintain loyalty to Freedom as a basic human value, and above all else to keep in our hearts and minds the tolerance and mutual trust that have been the genius of…
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Speech at the Economic Club of New York
We believe that a healthy business climate is essential. We believe that business must prosper if our citizens are to have a productive and happy life here in the United States and if we are to meet our tremendous commitments and responsibilities abroad.
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
Our enemies assert that capitalism enslaves the worker and will destroy itself. It is our national faith that the system of competitive enterprise offers the best hope for individual freedom, social development and economic growth.
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
On this generation of Americans falls the full burden of proving to the world that we really mean it when we say all men are created free and are equal before the law. All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times…
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Address at the Joint Defense Appeal of the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, Chicago, Illinois
My faith is that Americans are not an inert people. My conviction is that we are rising as a people to confront the hard challenges of our age—and that we know that the hardest challenges are often those within ourselves
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
Time has long since arrived when loyal Americans must measure the impact of their actions beyond the limits of their own towns or States.
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