A President must call on many persons – some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home.
Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I’m going to Vietnam.
Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
I know – from personal experience – that abiding values and abundant visions are learned in the homes of our people.
Every citizen, regardless of his race, creed, or color, is entitled to equal justice.
Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.
I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together.
War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.
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.