Yesterday the Electoral Commission decided not to go behind the papers filed with the Vice-President in the case of Florida.... I ...read the arguments in the Congressional Record and can't see how lawyers can differ on the question. But the decision is by a strictly party vote--eight Republicans against seven Democrats! It shows the strength of party ties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The return to solid values is always hard.... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of ...the nation which controls the sky.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills th...e soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the House, Members of the Senate, my fellow Americans, all I have I would have given gladly... not to be standing here today.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the House is designed to provide a reflection of the mood of the moment, the Senate is meant to reflect the continuity of the p...ast--to preserve the delicate balance of justice between the majority's whims and the minority's rights.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still "globaloney." Mr. Wallace's warp of sense... and his woof of nonsense is very tricky cloth out of which to cut the pattern of a post-war world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When Hitler attacked the Jews ... I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was n...ot a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then, Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church--and there was nobody left to be concerned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[P]ermanent defenses are a non-recurring charge against governmental budgets while large armies continually rearmed with improved ...offensive weapons constitute a recurring charge. This, more than any other factor ... is responsible for governmental deficits and threatened bankruptcy. The way to disarm is to disarm.... [Congress and the President strive] for the improvement of social conditions, for the preservation of individual human rights, and for the furtherance of social justice.... It is in order to assure these great human values that we seek peace by ridding the world of the weapons of aggression and attack.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »