Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.
You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.
Our partnership has been built on four pillars The first pillar is peace. The second pillar is freedom. The third pillar is respect. The fourth pillar is cooperation.
No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.
We of the United States consider ourselves blessed. We have much to give thanks for. But the gift of providence we cherish most is that we were given as our neighbors on this wonderful continent the people and the nation of Canada.
I may not worry as much as Prime Minister Eshkol does about Israel, but I worry as deeply.
I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
Not merely a nation but a nation of nations.
We Americans know – although others appear to forget – the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.
When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.
Not now, or not there, or too much, or not at all.
If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.
For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools.
For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest loans to students continuing their college studies.
This nation, this generation, in this hour has man’s first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man’s life matches the marvels of man’s labor.
We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today’s population. A prudent nation must look ahead and plan for tomorrow.
Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.