I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together.
So, I would appeal to my fellow Americans by saying, the only real road to progress for free people is through the process of law and that is the road that America will travel.
Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.
The classroom – not the trench – is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.
Voting is the first duty of democracy.
Liberty is not enough.
The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.
I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men – and closes its hearts to none.
When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.
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 the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.
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 past – to preserve the delicate balance of justice between the majority’s whims and the minority’s rights.
The family is the corner stone of our society.
Mr. Speaker, at a time when the nation is again confronted with necessity for calling its young men into service in the interestsof National Security, I cannot see the wisdom of denying our young women the opportunity to serve their country.
All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.
The future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people.
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
Every President wants to do right.
While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.
If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.