Our system of government, in spite of Vietnam, Cambodia, CIA, Watergate, is still the best system of government on earth. And the ...greatest resource of all are the 215 million Americans who still have within us the strength, the character, the intelligence, the experience, the patriotism, the idealism, the compassion, the sense of brotherhood on which we can rely in the future to restore the greatness to our country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The President should not be required to take up the question of the selection of a successor before the last offices of affection ...and respect have been paid to the dead. If the proprieties of an occasion as sad as that which now overshadows us are observed, possibly one-half of the brief time allowed is gone before, with due regard to the decencies of life, the President and those with whom he should advise can take up the consideration of the grave duty of selecting a head for one of the greatest Departments of the Government.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us may realize who live in countries where freedom of... expression is taken for granted. The leaders of totalitarian nations understand this very well. The proof is that words are precisely the action for which dissidents in those countries are being persecuted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined tha...t war shall never come to us again. All Americans understand the basic lessons of history: that we need to be resolute and able to protect ourselves, to prevent threats and domination by others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Within us, the people of the United States, there is evident a serious and purposeful rekindling of confidence, and I join in the ...hope that when my time as your President has ended, people might say this about our Nation: That we had remembered the words of Micah and renewed our search for humility, mercy, and justice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The treatment of the incident of the assault upon the sailors of the Baltimore is so conciliatory and friendly that I am of the op...inion that there is a good prospect that the differences growing out of that serious affair can now be adjusted upon terms satisfactory to this Government by the usual methods and without special powers from Congress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is quite a startling proposition, and a very novel one, I think, that there shall be absolutely no opportunity for the review i...n an appellate court, in cases involving such large amounts, of questions involving the construction of the statute under which the court is proceeding, or those various questions of law, many of them new, which necessarily arise in such cases. Neither the claimants, the Indians, nor the Government of the United States should be absolutely denied opportunity to bring their exceptions to review by some appellate tribunal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the dignity as well as the prestige and influence of the United States are not to be wholly sacrificed, we must protect those w...ho, in foreign ports, display the flag or wear the colors of this Government against insult, brutality, and death, inflicted in resentment of the acts of their Government, and not for any fault of their own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is so manifestly incompatible with those precautions for our peace and safety, which all the great powers habitually observe an...d enforce in matters affecting them, that a shorter water way between our eastern and western seaboards should be dominated by any European government, that we may confidently expect that such a purpose will not be entertained by any friendly power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its... serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »