I pray we are still a young and courageous nation, that we have not grown so old and so fat and so prosperous that all we can thin...k about is to sit back with our arms around our money bags. If we choose to do that I have no doubt that the smoldering fires will burst into flame and consume us--dollars and all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and ...the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.... It is a place ...where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community.... It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back a...nd a mask on his face.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for... the rich fertility of American political invention.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require a...ction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but ...brings danger to the many.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »