Peace and Conflict
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Excerpt from Quote Magazine
If we are going to win the present conflict with the Soviet Union, we can no longer support the exploitation of native people by Western nations.
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Speech in Chicago
Tags Share However wise our efforts may be in unconventional diplomacy and unconventional warfare, however sensible our diversity of weapons and strategy, however great our military power and determined our counteroffensive of ideas, there is yet another obstacle to our opening to the future. That is the image of the future we project by our…
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Statement on Vietnam
Full and informing debate rests upon moderation and mutual indulgence. Men must seek acceptance of their views through reason, and not through intimidation; through argument, and not through accusation.
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Television interview in the WTTG studios of the Metromedia Television Network
As long as we have difficult and complex problems, and as long as there are groups within the United States who feel that there are easy answers
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Address at the Joint Defense Appeal of the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, Chicago, Illinois
I have been drawn to the Civil War, as have many Americans, because it was a climactic time in our history; a time of incredible courage and bravery; a time when the American people faced a strange and bitter crisis and emerged united and resolved to continue the historic struggle of free men to achieve…
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Speech at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives. For that reason, progressive political programs are the best way to erode the Communist presence in Latin America, to turn back the Communist thrust into Southeast Asia, and to ensure the stability of the…
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Address at the University of Chicago China Conference, Chicago, Illinois
The future of our relations with China may lie beyond our vision but it is not completely beyond our control.
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Senate Speech
We are stronger, and therefore have more responsibility, than any nation on earth; we should make the first effort, the greatest effort, and the last effort to control nuclear weapons. We can and must begin immediately.
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