Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividing line - at least for the Western World - between the comfortable security of the 19th century and the instability and flux of our own time.
The right to vote is the easiest of all rights to grant.
Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.
Within the United States, we have put great emphasis upon political freedoms. Because it has been our experience that these freedoms can lead to others.
I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.
Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
It is one thing to open job opportunities. It is another to train people to fill them, or to persuade American enterprise to seek Negro as well as white applicants.
A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can help other peoples to develop their resources, raise their living standards, and strengthen their national independence, the safer the world will be for us all.
In government, our chief executives have been lawyers. The great majority of our cabinets and congresses are and have been men trained in the law. They have provided the leadership and the statecraft and the store of strength when it was needed.
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology.
What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
One of the primary purposes of civilization - and certainly its primary strength - is the guarantee that family life can flourish in unity, peace, and order.
I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best.
I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnson under any foreseeable circumstances.
To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds.
Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives.
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.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
