Human Rights Education
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Senate Speech
We were the first to discover and use the atom’s secrets; our nuclear capability is still the most powerful among the nations of the earth.
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Senate Speech
The need to halt the spread of nuclear weapons must be a central priority of American policy. Of all our major interests, this now deserves and demands the greatest effort.
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Speech at the Democratic State Committee Dinner, Columbus, Ohio
Only if we ourselves lessen the role and importance of nuclear weapons can we expect other, weaker nations to do the same; and only if nuclear weapons do become less important can we hope, in the long run, that others, no matter what treaties we reach, will refrain from making or acquiring them.
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Speech
The job of providing constructive and challenging opportunities for young people throughout the nation is every citizen’s business.
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Remarks at the Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
We are finding that it is not enough to say that justice should be done—or even to pass laws commanding that justice be done. Laws and speeches do not build scho
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Speech at the University of Alabama
It is for us now, in New York and Alabama and all over the nation, to create new kinds of systems, for education and health, and work and housing; systems which will bring one fifth of America, for the first time, into the 20th century, into a society which creates and opens new opportunities even…
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Address at the 120th Anniversary Dinner of B’nai B’rith, Chicago, Illinois
The law which governs us must be written in the statute books. But there are areas in which our guide is more moral than legal—more a part of the basic fabric of humanity than a rigid code—more a part of our beliefs than specific rules of conduct.
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Address Before Young Israel of Pelham Parkway at the Concourse Plaza Hotel, New York City
A century ago Lincoln observed that the dogmas of the quiet past were inadequate to the stormy present. “As our case is new,” he said, “so we must think anew and act anew.
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Speech at the Democratic State Committee Dinner, Columbus, Ohio
Leadership in Freedom depends on fidelity and persistence in those shaping beliefs—democracy, freedom, justice
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Senate Speech
If we are to leave our children a planet on which to live safely, to fulfill the bright promise of their lives, we must resume the journey towards peace.
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man, the child of God, is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any western…
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Speech at the Dedication of the John F. Kennedy Interfaith Chapel at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia
With the irony of a paradoxical world, the surest guarantee of peace at present is the power to wage war. The United States has that power. It comes from our programs of strength and deterrence.
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