Quotes
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Address Before Young Israel of Pelham Parkway at the Concourse Plaza Hotel, New York City
When our forebears—yours and mine—came to America, they came because this country promised them something. It promised them an opportunity, nourished by education, not merely to grind for a bare living, but to strive for a good life.
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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 in Chicago
Time and time again the American people, facing danger and seemingly insurmountable odds, have mobilized the ingenuity, resourcefulness, strength and bravery to meet the situation and triumph. In this long and critical struggle, the American system of free enterprise must be our major weapon. We must continue to prove to the world that we can…
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Address at the University of California, Berkeley Campus
All of us have the right to dissipate our energies and talent as we desire. But those who are serious about the future have the obligation to direct those energies and talents toward concrete objectives consistent with the ideas they profess. From those of you who take that course will come the fresh ideas and…
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Speech at Academy of Trial Lawyers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Through most of the United States today the bail system is a cruel and illogical institution which perpetuates injustice in the name of the law. In actual practice, control is frequently in the hands of bondsmen rather than the courts.
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Remarks at Model City Conference, Buffalo, New York
The plight of the cities—the physical decay and the human despair that pervades them—is the great internal problem of the American nation, a challenge which must be met.
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Statement to Senate
The issues which we face in our cities go to the question of the survival of our society. They deserve the highest priority consideration.
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Speech at Worthington, Minnesota
There is simply not enough room in the big cities; and it is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people
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Address Before Young Israel of Pelham Parkway at the Concourse Plaza Hotel, New York City
We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price.
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Speech at the Dedication of Kendrick Hall at the University of San Francisco Law School, San Francisco, California
Since the days of Greece and Rome when the word “citizen” was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities. And today, as never before in the free world, responsibility is the greatest right of citizenship and service is the greatest of freedom’s…
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Remarks before the Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization of the Committee on Government Operations of the United States Senate
The city is not just housing and stores. It is not just education and employment, parks and theaters, banks and shops.
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