Quotes
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Statement on Federal Metal and Non-Metallic Mine Safety Bill
National Safety Council accident statistics show clearly that miners and mill workers are more likely to be seriously injured or killed than workers in almost any other industry
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Speech at the Conference of UPI Editors and Publishers, Washington, D. C.
I have a deep awareness of the role that the press plays in our society. I firmly believe that freedom of information is one of the most important weapons we have in the great struggle for freedom now going on around the world.
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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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Speech at University of Alabama
Negroes must be as free as other Americans —free to vote and to learn and to earn their way, and to share in the decisions of government would shape their lives. We know that to accomplish this end will mean great tension and difficulty and strife for all of u
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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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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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Speech before the Western New York Publishers Association, Painted Post, New York
Thomas Jefferson once said that he cared not who made a country’s laws, so long as he could write its newspapers.
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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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Senate Speech
We cannot protect only our friends from nuclear attack—or allow nations with whom we are otherwise friendly to threaten others with nuclear weapons. We must stand against nuclear aggression—period.
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Excerpt from Quote Magazine
I would encourage the many, rather than the few, to participate in public life at the national, state or local level.
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Nations, like man, often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated nor transplanted to others. What is important is that all nations must march toward increasing freedom; towards justice for all; toward a society strong and flexible enough to meet the demands of…
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Speech at the Dedication of the John F. Kennedy Interfaith Chapel at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia
When we talk about birthright we talk about the right of opportunity, the right of opportunity to succeed or fail on individual talents unfettered by man-made barriers. That is what gives a man his dignity.
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