1966
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Senate Speech
The population of this globe grows every day, nowhere faster than in the underdeveloped nations.
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Senate Speech
It is not given to us to right every wrong, to make perfect all the imperfections of the world. But neither is it given to us to sit content in our store houses—dieting while others starve, buying 8 million new cars a year while most of the world goes without shoes. We are simply not…
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Address Before the Jewish Theological Seminary of America at the Hotel Diplomat, Hollywood, Florida
On Jewish literature is a seal on which is the burning bush and the words in Hebrew, “And the Bush was not consumed.” So it must be today— for the more brightly the flame of discussion and debate burns in our nation, the more sure it is that the bush that is democracy will never…
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Speech Prepared for Delivery at University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
We will, in a sense, have to make of the United States a vast continuing educational system
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Statement on Vietnam
Full and informing debate rests upon moderation and mutual indulgence. Men must seek acceptance of their views through reason, and not through intimidation; through argument, and not through accusation.
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Speech at the Dedication of Mt. Providence Junior College, Baltimore, Maryland
We are coming to understand that much of what is wrong with our education system is precisely that it is too much involved with government. Impersonal bureaucracies, however well-intentioned, operating from efficient remote headquarters, are no substitute for the intimate involvement of community—of home or church, of local voluntary association, and—in the last analysis—the active…
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Statement on Vietnam
Democracy is no easy form of government. Few Nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the chances of freedom; that the liberating play of reason be brought to bear on events filled with passion; that dissent be allowed to make its appeal for acceptance; that men chance error in…
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Speech at the Dedication of Mt. Providence Junior College, Baltimore, Maryland
Our schools, our homes, our families, our churches—these are the vessels in which we preserve traditions and wisdom and ideals of our past, in which we add the experience and insights which best serve our time, through which we pass our truest legacy to our children.
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Speech at the Democratic State Committee Dinner, Columbus, Ohio
[The American people] are not going to vote for the Democratic party because things are fine or because they “never had it so good.”
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Speech at the Dedication of Mt. Providence Junior College, Baltimore, Maryland
What is our educational commitment? In principle, our commitment has been that every child should have an adequate education. But if we mean our commitment
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Speech Delivered Before the New York Democratic State Committee
The Democratic Party must make a major effort to involve itself with the social and economic problems of the States on the local as well as state-wide level.
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Speech at the Dedication of Mt. Providence Junior College, Baltimore, Maryland
The commitment of young people, I believe, is our greatest resource.
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