1963
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Speech in Chicago
There are those, frustrated by a difficult future, who grab out for the security of a nonexistent past. Frustrated by change, they condemned the wisdom, the motives and even the patriotism of those who seek to contend with the realities of the future. They search for the haven of doctrine.
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Address at Kentucky’s Centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, Freedom Hall, Louisville, Kentucky
Oscar Handlin, the historian, observed: “Once I thought to write a history of immigrants in America. Then I discovered that immigrants were American history.” Let us remember that history and look with confidence to the future, recognizing that our investment in new citizens will be repaid thousands of times over.
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Speech in Chicago
Equality of justice in our courts should never depend upon the defendant’s wealth or lack of resources, but in all honesty we must admit that we have failed frequently to avoid such a result.
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Address at the American G.I. Forum, Chicago, Illinois
The contributions made to this country by Spanish-derived culture through the ages are incalculable.
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Address, Annual Meeting of the Missouri Bar Association, Kansas City, Missouri
We are part of an intricate system that has developed over the centuries as man’s best hope for resolving disputes and appraising policies
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Speech in Chicago
Tags Share However wise our efforts may be in unconventional diplomacy and unconventional warfare, however sensible our diversity of weapons and strategy, however great our military power and determined our counteroffensive of ideas, there is yet another obstacle to our opening to the future. That is the image of the future we project by our…
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Speech in Chicago
The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means. It assumes that people, and nations will often think differently, have the full right to do so, and that diversity is the source of progress
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Address at the 120th Anniversary Dinner of B’nai B’rith, Chicago, Illinois
There can be no freedom from want without freedom of opportunity; there can be no freedom of opportunity without freedom to learn; there can be no freedom from fear unless each of the other freedoms is attained.
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Address at the 120th Anniversary Dinner of B’nai B’rith, Chicago, Illinois
We believe that freedom has but one message though it speaks in many tongues.
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Speech Delivered at the Commencement Exercises at Trinity College, Washington, D.C.
In the light of a truly freed mind no prejudice can disguise itself as zeal, no bullying can masquerade as leadership, no pettiness can pose as importance.
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