Peace and Conflict
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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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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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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 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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Address Before Young Israel of Pelham Parkway at the Concourse Plaza Hotel, New York City
We are all aware of, and delighted by, the success of the Peace Corps. The men and women who have served in it have brought to peoples around the world, in remote mountain villages and in bustling industrial cities, the true picture of the American of the sixties. It has been their spirit, their idealism,…
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Senate Speech
Of course, unilateral action is easier than collective action; but we are much stronger when we act in concert with the rest of the hemisphere than when we act alone; and consultation is the price you must pay for the extra strength our alliances give us
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Statement Delivered Before U.S. Senate
We have a responsibility to the victims of crime and violence. It is a responsibility to think not only of our own convenience but of the tragedy of sudden death. It is a responsibility to put away childish things
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Senate Speech
The accomplishments of United States foreign assistance are already substantial— they are being felt in dozens of countries, all over the world.
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