Authoritarianism
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
I believe that, as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind. A government that can destroy such a barrier without erecting any others in the process is a good force. A government too weak for that is not only a waste but an evil…
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Speech in Chicago
Far too often, for narrow, tactical reasons, this country has associated itself with tyrannical and unpopular regimes that had no following and
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Speech delivered at the 10th Anniversary Convocation for the Center for Study of Democratic Institutions of the Fund for the Republic, New York City
If our Constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded—”But the greatest of these is speech.” In the darkness of tyranny, this is the key to the sunlight. If it is granted, all doors open. If it is withheld, none.
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Senate Speech
Economic assistance is no magic cure; it will not abolish dictatorship, nor automatically remove oppression, and injustice; and given unwisely, it can even bolster the forces of reaction and hamper progress. But an adequate program of assistance can help to prevent oppression, can at least right the basic injustices of starvation and ignorance and degradation…
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Speech in Chicago
Marx’s condemnation of the heartless laissez-faire capitalism of the early nineteenth century now, by an irony of history, applies with fantastic precision to twentieth century Communi
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
I am unilaterally opposed to Communism because it exalts the state over the individual and the family, and because of the lack of freedom of speech, of protest, of religion and of the press, which is the characteristic of totalitarian states.
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Address to the American Jewish Congress, New York City
The tyranny of Communism is as old as the Pharaohs and the Pyramids—that the state stands above all men and their individual aspirations. And this is why we oppose it, because by force and subversion it seeks to impose its tyranny all around the world.
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Address Before Young Israel of Pelham Parkway at the Concourse Plaza Hotel, New York City
I think that the Communist party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States.
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Address at the University of Chicago China Conference, Chicago, Illinois
It is safe to say that there is no aspect of American foreign policy so important and yet uncertain—no country so seemingly menacing about which we know so little—as China …We will ignore China, or think of her as weak, only at great danger to ourselves.
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Statement
We know that China is a difficult and hostile power and that negotiations with China may be frustrating—and perhaps fruitless. But China exists.
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Senate Speech June 23, 1965
China is profoundly suspicious of and hostile to us—as we are highly and rightly suspicious of her. But China is there. China will have nuclear weapons. And without her participation it will be infinitely more difficult, perhaps impossible in the long run, to prevent nuclear proliferation. At an appropriate time and manner, therefore, we should…
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Jose Zalaquett
Biography: José Zalaquett began his career as a founder of the modern human rights movement worldwide, campaigning while a law student for Salvador Allende. Upon Allende’s election as president of Chile in 1970, Zalaquett served a two-year term as cabinet minister, which he left for a post at the university. Shortly thereafter in 1973, General…
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