Quotes
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Address at the National Farmers Union Convention in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
No sector of the American economy, no group of Americans, has made greater contributions to our strength, our national prosperity, the health and amenity of our lives, than the American farmer
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Address at the National Farmers Union Convention in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
It is sometimes said that the decline in total net farm income is not so bad because more than 2 and 1/2 million farmers have left the land since World War I
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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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Senate Speech
The population of this globe grows every day, nowhere faster than in the underdeveloped nations.
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Senate Speech
We are increasingly an island of affluence and privilege in a world of desperate poverty—
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Senate Speech
For our legacy—to our children, to the next generation of political leaders in the United States—will be far more than what we leave within our boundaries. Its most important element will be the role and standing of the United States in the world— whether, in short, people will look to this country with hope or…
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Statement on the Food Stamp Program before Senate Subcommittee on Agricultural Research and General Legislation
When I was in Mississippi with the Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty, I saw conditions of extreme hunger. I saw people who eat only one meal a day or one meal every two days.
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Address at the Cornell University Agricultural Leaders’ Forum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
The word “rural” no longer means what it once did for us
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Speech in Chicago
Education is basic to the future of this nation. When thousands of our citizens are afforded only inferior educational opportunities, they suffer a loss which can never be compensated and the whole country is subjected to unnecessary social and economic waste.
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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 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 Delivered at the Commencement Exercises at Trinity College, Washington, D.C.
I suspect there may always be arguments about what constitutes a higher education, but wise men through the ages have at least been able to agree on its purpose.
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