The Concordance

Assertion

1. 1521Martin LutherMost Serene Emperor, and You Illustrious Princes and Gracious Lords:—I this day appear before you in all humility, according to your command,
2. 1521Martin LutherIn some I have discussed Faith and Good Works, in a spirit at once so pure, clear, and Christian,
3. 1521Martin LutherI alone, of all men living, should be abandoning truths approved by the unanimous voice of friends and enemies, and opposing doctrines that the whole …
4. 1521Martin Lutherwherein I have attacked such as by false doctrines, irregular lives, and scandalous examples, afflict the Christian world, and ruin the bodies and …
5. 1521Martin LutherBearing down all resistance with fresh fury, we should behold these proud men swell, foam, and rage more than ever!
6. 1521Martin LutherI should thus be like to an infamous cloak, used to hid and cover over every kind of malice and tyranny.
7. 1521Martin Lutherwho had undertaken to defend the tyranny of Rome by destroying the faith.
8. 1521Martin LutherHow much more should I, who am but dust and ashes, and so prone to error, desire that every one should bring forward what he can against my doctrine.
9. 1521Martin LutherWhat I have just said I think will clearly show that I have well considered and weighed the dangers to which I am exposing myself;
10. 1521Martin LutherGod is wonderful and awful in His counsels.
11. 1521Martin LutherI might cite examples drawn from the oracles of God.
12. 1521Martin LutherI might speak of Pharaohs, of kings of Babylon, or of Israel, who were never more contributing to their own ruin than when, by measures in …
13. 1758Franklin, as SaundersThis pleasure I have seldom enjoyed ;
14. 1758Franklin, as SaundersThis gave me some satisfaction; as it showed not only that my instructions were regarded. but discovered likewise some respect for my authority ;
15. 1758Franklin, as SaundersI stopped my horse lately, where a great number of people were collected at an Auction of Merchant's Goods. The hour of sale not being come, they …
16. 1758Franklin, as SaundersThey joined in desiring him to speak his mind; and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows:
17. 1758Franklin, as Saundersthe taxes are indeed very heavy; and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them : but …
18. 1758Franklin, as SaundersIt would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their time, to be employed in its service ; but idleness taxes …
19. 1758Franklin, as SaundersSloth, by bringing on disease, absolutely shortens life.
20. 1758Franklin, as Saundersso by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.
21. 1758Franklin, as SaundersWe make these times better if we bestir ourselves.
22. 1758Franklin, as Saundersbut then the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes.
23. 1758Franklin, as SaundersIf we are industrious, we shall never starve;
24. 1758Franklin, as Saundersfor you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow ;
25. 1758Franklin, as SaundersIt is true there is much to be done, and perhaps you are weak handed ;
26. 1758Franklin, as SaundersWhereas industry gives comfort, and plenty, and respect.
27. 1758Franklin, as SaundersTrusting too much to others' care is the ruin of many :
28. 1758Franklin, as Saundersbut a man's own care is profitable;
29. 1758Franklin, as Saundersbeing overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horse-shoe nail.
30. 1758Franklin, as Saunders“Here you are all got together at this sale of fineries and nick-nacks.
31. 1758Franklin, as SaundersYou expect they will be sold cheap, and perhaps they may, for less than they cost; but, if you have no occasion for them, they must be dear to you.
32. 1758Franklin, as SaundersMany a one, for the sake of finery on the back, have gone with a hungry belly and half starved their families.
33. 1758Franklin, as SaundersThese are not the necessaries of life, they can scarcely be called the conveniences;
34. 1758Franklin, as SaundersThe artificial wants of mankind thus become more numerous than the natural
35. 1758Franklin, as SaundersBy these and other extravagancies, the genteel are reduced to poverty, and forced to borrow of those whom they formerly despised, but who, through …
36. 1758Franklin, as SaundersBut this they might have known before, if they had taken his advice,
37. 1758Franklin, as Saundersand indeed so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again.
38. 1758Franklin, as SaundersWhen you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece;
39. 1758Franklin, as Saundersand it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox.
40. 1758Franklin, as Saunders'Tis, however, a folly soon punished;
41. 1758Franklin, as SaundersIt cannot promote health, nor ease pain ; it makes no inerease of merit in the person ; it creates envy ; it hastens misfortune.
42. 1758Franklin, as SaundersWe are offered by the terms of this sale, six months credit ; and that perhaps, has induced some of us to attend it, because we cannot spare the …
43. 1758Franklin, as Saundersyou give to another power over your liberty.
44. 1758Franklin, as SaundersIf you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor, you will be in fear when you speak to him, you will make poor, pitiful, …
45. 1758Franklin, as SaundersBut poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue.
46. 1758Franklin, as SaundersYour creditor has authority, at his pleasure, to deprive you of your liberty, by confining you in a jail for lite, or by selling you for a servant, …
47. 1758Franklin, as SaundersWhen you have got your bargain, you may, perhaps, think little of payment:
48. 1758Franklin, as SaundersThe day comes round before you are aware, and the demand is made before you are prepared to satisfy it ; or, if you bear your debt in mind, the term …
49. 1758Franklin, as SaundersGain may be temporary and uncertain ; but, ever while you live, expense is constant and certain ;
50. 1758Franklin, as SaundersAnd when you have got the philosopher's stone, sure you will no longer complain of bad times, or the difficulty of paying taxes.
51. 1758Franklin, as SaundersThis doctrine, my friends, is reason and wisdom;
52. 1758Franklin, as Saundersfor the auction opened, and they began to buy extravagantly, notwithstanding all his cautious, and their own fear of taxes.
53. 1758Franklin, as SaundersI found the good man had thoronghly studied my almanacks, and digested all I had dropt on those topics during the course of twenty-five years.
54. 1787PubliusThe subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences, nothing less than the existence of the UNION, the safety and welfare of the …
55. 1787PubliusThis idea will add the inducements of philanthropy to those of patriotism to heighten the solicitude, which all considerate and good men must feel …
56. 1787PubliusBut this is a thing more ardently to be wished, than seriously to be expected.
57. 1787PubliusThe plan offered to our deliberations, affects too many particular interests, innovates upon too many local institutions, not to involve in its …
58. 1787Publiusand it cannot be doubted, that much of the opposition which has made its appearance, or may hereafter make its appearance, will spring from sources, …
59. 1787PubliusSo numerous indeed and so powerful are the causes, which serve to give a false bias to the judgment, that we, upon many occasions, see wise and good …
60. 1787PubliusAnd a further reason for caution, in this respect, might be drawn from the reflection, that we are not always sure, that those who advocate the truth …
61. 1787PubliusAmbition, avarice, personal animosity, party opposition, and many other motives, not more laudable than these, are apt to operate as well upon those …
62. 1787PubliusWere there not even these inducements to moderation, nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit, which has, at all times, …
63. 1787PubliusAnd yet however just these sentiments will be allowed to be, we have already sufficient indications, that it will happen in this as in all former …
64. 1787PubliusTo judge from the conduct of the opposite parties, we shall be led to conclude, that they will mutually hope to evince the justness of their …
65. 1787PubliusIt will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is too apt to …
66. 1787PubliusOn the other hand, it will be equally forgotten, that the vigor of Government is essential to the security of liberty; that, in the contemplation of …
67. 1787PubliusHistory will teach us, that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism, than the latter; and that of those …
68. 1787PubliusYou will, no doubt, at the same time, have collected from the general scope of them that they proceed from a source not unfriendly to the new …
69. 1787PubliusI am convinced, that this is the safest course for your liberty, your dignity, and your happiness.
70. 1787PubliusThe consciousness of good intentions disdains ambiguity.
71. 1787PubliusIt may perhaps be thought superfluous to offer arguments to prove the utility of the UNION, a point, no doubt, deeply engraved on the hearts of the …
72. 1787PubliusThis doctrine will, in all probability, be gradually propagated, till it has votaries enough to countenance an open avowal of it.
73. 1787PubliusFor nothing can be more evident, to those who are able to take an enlarged view of the subject, than the alternative of an adoption of the new …
74. 1789George Washingtonfrom a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my …
75. 1789George WashingtonOn the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and …
76. 1789George WashingtonSuch being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station,
77. 1789George WashingtonNo people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States.
78. 1789George WashingtonEvery step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential …
79. 1789George Washingtonand in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so …
80. 1789George Washingtonsince there is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue …
81. 1789George Washingtonby the nature of objections which have been urged against the system, or by the degree of inquietude which has given birth to them.
82. 1789George WashingtonInstead of undertaking particular recommendations on this subject, in which I could be guided by no lights derived from official opportunities,
83. 1789George Washingtonbut not without resorting once more to the benign Parent of the Human Race in humble supplication that, since He has been pleased to favor the …
84. 1801Thomas JeffersonA rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful land, traversing all the seas with the rich productions of their industry, engaged in commerce with …
85. 1801Thomas JeffersonUtterly, indeed, should I despair did not the presence of many whom I here see remind me that in the other high authorities provided by our …
86. 1801Thomas JeffersonDuring the throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his …
87. 1801Thomas JeffersonI trust not.
88. 1801Thomas JeffersonI believe this, on the contrary, the strongest Government on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to …
89. 1801Thomas JeffersonThese principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom …
90. 1801Thomas JeffersonI repair, then, fellow-citizens, to the post you have assigned me.
91. 1801Thomas JeffersonWith experience enough in subordinate offices to have seen the difficulties of this the greatest of all, I have learnt to expect that it will rarely …
92. 1801Thomas JeffersonI shall often go wrong through defect of judgment.
93. 1805Red JacketHe orders all things and has given us a fine day for our council. He has taken his garment from before the sun, and caused it to shine with …
94. 1805Red JacketThis council fire was kindled by you. It was at your request that we came together at this time.
95. 1805Red JacketWe have listened with attention to what you have said.
96. 1805Red JacketOur minds are agreed.
97. 1805Red JacketIt is right you should have one, as you are at a great distance from home, and we do not wish to detain you.
98. 1805Red JacketThere was a time when our forefathers owned this great island. Their feats extended from the rising to the setting of the sun.
99. 1805Red JacketThe Great Spirit had made it for the use of the Indians.
100. 1805Red JacketHe had created the buffaloe, the deer, and other animals for food. He had made the bear and the beaver. Their skins served us for cloathing. He had …
101. 1805Red JacketAll this He had done for his red children because he loved them.
102. 1805Red JacketIf we had some disputes about our hunting ground, they were generally settled without the shedding of much blood.
103. 1805Red JacketYour fore-fathers crossed the great water and landed upon this island. Their numbers were small. They found friends, not enemies.
104. 1805Red JacketWe took pity on them, we granted their request, and they sat down amongst us.
105. 1805Red JacketWe gave them corn and meat, they gave us poison [alluding, it is supposed to ardent spirits] in return.
106. 1805Red JacketThe white people had now found our country. Tidings were carried back and more came amongst us.
107. 1805Red JacketYet we did not fear them. We took them to be friends.
108. 1805Red JacketWe believed them, and gave them a larger seat.
109. 1805Red JacketAt length their numbers had greatly increased. They wanted more land; they wanted our country.
110. 1805Red JacketOur eyes were opened and our minds became uneasy.
111. 1805Red JacketWars took place. Indians were hired to fight against Indians, and many of our people were destroyed.
112. 1805Red JacketThey also brought strong liquors amongst us. It was strong and powerfal and has slain thousands.
113. 1805Red JacketOur seats were once large and yours were small. You have now become a great people, and we have scarcely a place left to spread our blankets.
114. 1805Red JacketWe understand that your religion is written in a book.
115. 1805Red JacketWe only know what you tell us about it.
116. 1805Red JacketWe do not understand these things.
117. 1805Red JacketWe also have a religion, which was given to our forefathers, and has been handed down to us their children. We worship in that way.
118. 1805Red JacketIt teaches us to be thankful for all the favors we receive to love each other, and to be united.
119. 1805Red JacketWe never quarrel about religion.
120. 1805Red JacketHe has given us different complexions and different customs.
121. 1805Red JacketTo you he has given the arts. To these he has not opened our eyes.
122. 1805Red JacketWe know these things to be true.
123. 1805Red JacketThe Great Spirit does right. He knows what is best for his children;
124. 1805Red JacketThese people are our neighbors.
125. 1873Susan B. AnthonyMISS ANTHONY--Yes, your honor, I have many things to say;
126. 1873Susan B. AnthonyMy natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights, are all alike ignored.
127. 1873Susan B. AnthonyRobbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject;
128. 1873Susan B. Anthonyand not only myself individually, but all of my sex, are, by your honor's verdict, doomed to political subjection under this, so-called, form of …
129. 1873Susan B. AnthonyYour denial of my citizen's right to vote, is the denial of my right of consent as one of the governed, the denial of my right of representation as …
130. 1873Susan B. AnthonyMISS ANTHONY--All of my prosecutors, from the 8th ward corner grocery politician, who entered the complaint, to the United States Marshal, …
131. 1873Susan B. Anthonyand had your honor submitted my case to the jury, as was clearly your duty, even then I should have had just cause of protest, for not one of those …
132. 1873Susan B. Anthonybut, native or foreign born, white or black, rich or poor, educated or ignorant, awake or asleep, sober or drunk, each and every man of them was my …
133. 1873Susan B. AnthonyEven, under such circumstances, a commoner of England, tried before a jury of Lords, would have far less cause to complain than should I, a woman, …
134. 1873Susan B. AnthonyEven my counsel, the Hon. Henry R. Selden, who has argued my cause so ably, so earnestly, so unanswerably before your honor, is my political …
135. 1873Susan B. AnthonyPrecisely as no disfranchised person is entitled to sit upon a jury, and no woman is entitled to the franchise, so, none but a regularly admitted …
136. 1873Susan B. AnthonyMISS ANTHONY--Yes, your honor, but by forms of law all made by men, interpreted by men, administered by men, in favor of men, and against women; and …
137. 1873Susan B. AnthonyBut, yesterday, the same man made forms of law, declared it a crime punishable with $1,000 fine and six months' imprisonment, for you, or me, or any …
138. 1873Susan B. AnthonyAnd every man or woman in whose veins coursed a drop of human sympathy violated that wicked law, reckless of consequences, and was justified in so …
139. 1873Susan B. AnthonyAll the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my paper--_The Revolution_--four years ago, the sole object of which was …
140. 1886Louis LinggIn the first place, you have brought this fellow Seliger to testify against me.
141. 1886Louis LinggHim I have helped to make bombs, and you have further proven that with the assistance of another, I took those bombs to No. 58 Clybourn avenue,
142. 1886Louis Linggbut what you have not proven—even with the assistance of your bought "squealer," Seliger, who would appear to have acted such a prominent part in the …
143. 1886Louis LinggA couple of chemists also, have been brought here as specialists, yet they could only state that the metal of which the Haymarket bomb was made bore …
144. 1886Louis LinggHe had to admit that there was a difference of a full half inch in their diameters, although he suppressed the fact that there was also a difference …
145. 1886Louis LinggThis is the kind of evidence upon which you have convicted me.
146. 1886Louis LinggIt is not murder, however, of which you have convicted me.
147. 1886Louis LinggThis is a subject which my comrades have explained with sufficient clearness, and it is unnecessary for me to go over it again.
148. 1886Louis LinggThe State's attorney, however, has not given you that information.
149. 1886Louis LinggHe has merely criticized and condemned not the doctrines of Anarchy, but our methods of giving them practical effect, and even here he has maintained …
150. 1886Louis LinggBut the fact is, that at every attempt to wield the ballot, at every endeavor to combine the efforts of workingmen, you have displayed the brutal …
151. 1886Louis LinggIts representatives are the police, and they have thieves in their ranks.
152. 1886Louis LinggHere sits Captain Schaack.
153. 1886Louis LinggThese are your defenders of property rights!
154. 1886Louis LinggThe detectives again, who arrested me, forced their way into my room like house breakers, under false pretenses, giving the name of a carpenter, …
155. 1886Louis LinggYou have not subpœnaed this lady, Mrs. Klein, who was present, and could have sworn that the aforesaid detectives ​broke into my room under false …
156. 1886Louis LinggIn Schaack we have a captain of the police,
157. 1886Louis LinggThe proof has been adduced by my counsel, and with my own eyes I have seen Grinnell point out to Gilmer, eight days before he came upon the stand, …
158. 1886Louis LinggA fellow who has leagued himself with a parcel of base hireling knaves, to bring me to the gallows.
159. 1886Louis LinggFor no earthly reason save a contemptible selfishness—a desire to "rise in the world"—to "make money," forsooth!
160. 1886Louis LinggThis wretch—who, by means of the perjuries of other wretches is going to murder seven men—is the fellow who calls me "coward"!
161. 1886Louis LinggThe latter knows how to get around it, however.
162. 1886Louis LinggI was a member of that body, so he has the charge securely fastened on me.
163. 1886Louis LinggExcellent! Nothing is too difficult for the genius of a State's attorney!
164. 1886Louis LinggIt is hardly incumbent upon me to review the relations which I occupy to my companions in misfortune.
165. 1886Louis LinggI can say truly and openly that I am not as intimate with my fellow prisoners as I am with Captain Schaack.
166. 1886Louis LinggThe universal misery, the ravages of the capitalistic hyena have brought us together in our agitation, not as persons, but as workers in the same …
167. 1886Louis LinggThe State's attorney quotes three times as many decisions from perhaps still higher courts to prove the opposite, and I am convinced that if, in …
168. 1886Louis LinggAnd not even under such a law, a law that a schoolboy must despise, not even by such methods have they been able to "legally" convict us.
169. 1886Louis LinggThey have suborned perjury to boot.
170. 1895Booker T. WashingtonOne-third of the population of the South is of the Negro race.
171. 1895Booker T. WashingtonNo enterprise seeking the material, civil, or moral welfare of this section can disregard this element of our population and reach the highest …
172. 1895Booker T. WashingtonIt is a recognition that will do more to cement the friendship of the two races than any occurrence since the dawn of our freedom.
173. 1895Booker T. WashingtonNot only this, but the opportunity here afforded will awaken among us a new era of industrial progress.
174. 1895Booker T. WashingtonAnd in this connection it is well to bear in mind that whatever other sins the South may be called to bear, when it comes to business, pure and …
175. 1895Booker T. WashingtonOur greatest danger is that in the great leap from slavery to freedom we may overlook the fact that the masses of us are to live by the productions …
176. 1895Booker T. WashingtonNo race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
177. 1895Booker T. WashingtonThere is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
178. 1895Booker T. WashingtonEffort or means so invested will pay a thousand percent interest.
179. 1895Booker T. WashingtonThese efforts will be twice blessed — blessing him that gives and him that takes.
180. 1895Booker T. WashingtonNo race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
181. 1895Booker T. WashingtonIt is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of these …
182. 1895Booker T. WashingtonThe opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera-house.
183. 1895Booker T. WashingtonThis, coupled with our material prosperity, will bring into our beloved South a new heaven and a new earth.
184. 1913Woodrow WilsonThere has been a change of government.
185. 1913Woodrow WilsonIt began two years ago, when the House of Representatives became Democratic by a decisive majority. It has now been completed.
186. 1913Woodrow WilsonThe Senate about to assemble will also be Democratic.
187. 1913Woodrow WilsonThat is the question that is uppermost in our minds to-day.
188. 1913Woodrow WilsonIt means much more than the mere success of a party.
189. 1913Woodrow WilsonNo one can mistake the purpose for which the Nation now seeks to use the Democratic Party.
190. 1913Woodrow WilsonWe have been refreshed by a new insight into our own life.
191. 1913Woodrow WilsonWe see that in many things that life is very great. It is incomparably great in its material aspects, in its body of wealth, in the diversity and …
192. 1913Woodrow WilsonIt is great, also, very great, in its moral force. Nowhere else in the world have noble men and women exhibited in more striking forms the beauty and …
193. 1913Woodrow WilsonWe have built up, moreover, a great system of government, which has stood through a long age as in many respects a model for those who seek to set …
194. 1913Woodrow WilsonOur life contains every great thing, and contains it in rich abundance.
195. 1913Woodrow WilsonWith riches has come inexcusable waste. We have squandered a great part of what we might have used, and have not stopped to conserve the exceeding …
196. 1913Woodrow WilsonWe have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not hitherto stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives …
197. 1913Woodrow WilsonThe groans and agony of it all had not yet reached our ears, the solemn, moving undertone of our life, coming up out of the mines and factories, and …
198. 1913Woodrow WilsonWith the great Government went many deep secret things which we too long delayed to look into and scrutinize with candid, fearless eyes.
199. 1913Woodrow WilsonThe great Government we loved has too often been made use of for private and selfish purposes, and those who used it had forgotten the people.
200. 1913Woodrow WilsonWe see the bad with the good, the debased and decadent with the sound and vital.
201. 1913Woodrow WilsonThere has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to succeed and be great.
202. 1913Woodrow WilsonWe had not forgotten our morals. We remembered well enough that we had set up a policy which was meant to serve the humblest as well as the most …
203. 1913Woodrow WilsonThe scales of heedlessness have fallen from our eyes.
204. 1913Woodrow WilsonA tariff which cuts us off from our proper part in the commerce of the world, violates the just principles of taxation, and makes the Government a …
205. 1913Woodrow Wilsonwatercourses undeveloped, waste places unreclaimed, forests untended, fast disappearing without plan or prospect of renewal, unregarded waste heaps …
206. 1913Woodrow WilsonWe have studied as perhaps no other nation has the most effective means of production, but we have not studied cost or economy as we should either as …
207. 1913Woodrow WilsonNor have we studied and perfected the means by which government may be put at the service of humanity, in safeguarding the health of the Nation, the …
208. 1913Woodrow WilsonThere can be no equality or opportunity, the first essential of justice in the body politic, if men and women and children be not shielded in their …
209. 1913Woodrow WilsonThe first duty of law is to keep sound the society it serves.
210. 1913Woodrow WilsonSanitary laws, pure food laws, and laws determining conditions of labor which individuals are powerless to determine for themselves are intimate …
211. 1913Woodrow WilsonIt is inconceivable that we should do this as partisans; it is inconceivable we should do it in ignorance of the facts as they are or in blind haste.
212. 1913Woodrow WilsonMen's hearts wait upon us; men's lives hang in the balance; men's hopes call upon us to say what we will do.
213. 1918Eugene V. DebsI listened to all that was said in this court in support and justification of this prosecution, but my mind remains unchanged.
214. 1918Eugene V. DebsAt fourteen I went to work in a railroad shop; at sixteen I was firing a freight engine on a railroad.
215. 1918Eugene V. DebsI see them dwarfed and diseased and their little lives broken and blasted because in this high noon of Christian civilization money is still so much …
216. 1918Eugene V. DebsIn this country—the most favored beneath the bending skies—we have vast areas of the richest and most fertile soil, material resources in …
217. 1918Eugene V. Debsit is not the fault of the Almighty: it cannot be charged to nature, but it is due entirely to the outgrown social system in which we live that ought …
218. 1918Eugene V. DebsI believe, as all Socialists do, that all things that are jointly needed and used ought to be jointly owned—that industry, the basis of our social …
219. 1918Eugene V. DebsThis order of things cannot always endure.
220. 1918Eugene V. DebsThere are multiplied thousands of others who, like myself, have come to realize that before we may truly enjoy the blessings of civilized life, we …
221. 1918Eugene V. DebsThere are today upwards of sixty millions of Socialists, loyal, devoted adherents to this cause, regardless of nationality, race, creed, color, or …
222. 1918Eugene V. DebsThey are all making common cause. They are spreading with tireless energy the propaganda of the new social order. They are waiting, watching, and …
223. 1918Eugene V. DebsThey are still in a minority. But they have learned how to be patient and to bide their time.
224. 1918Eugene V. DebsThe feel—they know, indeed—that the time is coming, in spite of all opposition, all persecution, when this emancipating gospel will spread among all …
225. 1918Eugene V. DebsIn that day we shall have the universal commonwealth—the harmonious cooperation of every nation with every other nation on earth…
226. 1918Eugene V. DebsI realize that finally the right must prevail.
227. 1918Eugene V. DebsThe people are awakening.
228. 1918Eugene V. DebsIn due time they will and must come to their own.
229. 1918Woodrow WilsonI have come to urge upon you the considerations which have led me to that conclusion.
230. 1918Woodrow WilsonI had assumed that the Senate would concur in the amendment
231. 1918Woodrow WilsonThere is and can be no party issue involved in it.
232. 1918Woodrow WilsonNeither party, therefore, it seems to me, can justify hesitation as to the method of obtaining it, can rightfully hesitate to substitute federal …
233. 1918Woodrow WilsonAnd its adoption is, in my judgment, clearly necessary to the successful prosecution of the war and the successful realization of the objects for …
234. 1918Woodrow WilsonIf we be indeed democrats and wish to lead the world to democracy, we can ask other peoples to accept in proof of our sincerity and our ability to …
235. 1918Woodrow WilsonOur professions will not suffice.
236. 1918Woodrow WilsonAnd in this case verification is asked for—asked for in this particular matter.
237. 1918Woodrow WilsonNot through diplomatic channels; not by Foreign Ministers. Not by the intimations of parliaments.
238. 1918Woodrow WilsonIt is asked for by the anxious, expectant, suffering peoples with whom we are dealing and who are willing to put their destinies in some measure in …
239. 1918Woodrow WilsonI do not speak by conjecture.
240. 1918Woodrow WilsonIt is not alone the voices of statesmen and of newspapers that reach me,
241. 1918Woodrow Wilsonand the voices of foolish and intemperate agitators do not reach me at all.
242. 1918Woodrow WilsonThrough many, many channels I have been made aware what the plain, struggling, workaday folk are thinking upon whom the chief terror and suffering of …
243. 1918Woodrow WilsonThey are looking to the great, powerful, famous Democracy of the West to lead them to the new day for which they have so long waited;
244. 1918Woodrow WilsonThis war could not have been fought, either by the other nations engaged or by America, if it had not been for the services of the women—services …
245. 1918Woodrow WilsonWe shall not only be distrusted but shall deserve to be distrusted if we do not enfranchise them with the fullest possible enfranchisement, as it is …
246. 1918Woodrow WilsonWe cannot isolate our thought or our action in such a matter from the thought of the rest of the world.
247. 1918Woodrow WilsonThe women of America are too noble and too intelligent and too devoted to be slackers whether you give or withhold this thing that is mere justice;
248. 1918Woodrow Wilsonbut I know the magic it will work in their thoughts and spirits if you give it them.
249. 1918Woodrow WilsonThe tasks of the women lie at the very heart of the war,
250. 1918Woodrow Wilsonand I know how much stronger that heart will beat if you do this just thing and show our women that you trust them as much as you in fact and of …
251. 1918Woodrow Wilsonthat this measure which I urge upon you is vital to the winning of the war and to the energies alike of preparation and of battle.
252. 1918Woodrow WilsonAnd not to the winning of the war only. It is vital to the right solution of the great problems which we must settle, and settle immediately, when …
253. 1918Woodrow WilsonWe shall need them in our vision of affairs, as we have never needed them before, the sympathy and insight and clear moral instinct of the women of …
254. 1918Woodrow WilsonThe problems of that time will strike to the roots of many things that we have not hitherto questioned, and I for one believe that our safety in …
255. 1918Woodrow WilsonWe shall need their moral sense to preserve what is right and fine and worthy in our system of life as well as to discover just what it is that ought …
256. 1918Woodrow WilsonWithout their counsellings we shall be only half wise.
257. 1918Woodrow WilsonMany may deny its validity, if they choose, but no one can brush aside or answer the arguments upon which it is based.
258. 1925Darrow and BryanWe are here as lawyers with the same right to our views.
259. 1925Darrow and BryanA—No, sir;
260. 1925Darrow and BryanA—I have never tried to find.
261. 1925Darrow and BryanQ—There were no others recorded, but Cain got a wife.
262. 1925Darrow and BryanA—I do not think it necessarily means a twenty-four-hour day.
263. 1925Darrow and BryanA—I have not attempted to explain it.
264. 1925Darrow and Bryanthe word "day" there in the very next chapter is used to describe a period.
265. 1925Darrow and BryanI do not see that there is any necessity for construing the words, "the evening and the morning," as meaning necessarily a twenty-four-hour day, "in …
266. 1925Darrow and BryanA—I do not think it necessarily does.
267. 1925Darrow and BryanA—I do not think they were twenty-four-hour days.
268. 1925Darrow and BryanA—That is my opinion—I do not know that my opinion is better on that subject than those who think it does.
269. 1925Darrow and BryanA—No.
270. 1925Darrow and BryanBut I think it would be just as easy for the kind of God we believe in to make the earth in six days as in six years or in 6,000,000 years or in …
271. 1925Darrow and BryanI do not think it important whether we believe one or the other.
272. 1925Darrow and BryanA—My impression is they were periods,
273. 1925Darrow and Bryanyou have read it so many times you would know,
274. 1925Darrow and BryanA—I believe they were made in the order in which they were given there,
275. 1925Darrow and BryanI believe that it was made on the fourth day, in the fourth day.
276. 1925Darrow and BryanQ—And they had the evening and the morning before that time for three days or three periods.
277. 1925Darrow and BryanNow, if you call those periods, they may have been a very long time.
278. 1925Darrow and BryanA—It might have continued for millions of years.
279. 1925Darrow and Bryanand I believe the fact as fully———
280. 1925Darrow and BryanQ—And for that reason, every woman born of woman, who has to carry on the race, the reason they have childbirth pains is because Eve tempted Adam in …
281. 1925Darrow and BryanA—No, sir. I have no way to know.
282. 1925Darrow and Bryanand I have no objection in the world,
283. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltI recognize that the many proclamations from State Capitols and from Washington, the legislation, the Treasury regulations, etc., couched for the …
284. 1933Franklin D. Rooseveltlet me state the simple fact that when you deposit money in a bank the bank does not put the money into a safe deposit vault.
285. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltIt invests your money in many different forms of credit—bonds, commercial paper, mortgages and many other kinds of loans.
286. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltA comparatively small part of the money you put into the bank is kept in currency—an amount which in normal times is wholly sufficient to cover the …
287. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltIn other words, the total amount of all the currency in the country is only a small fraction of the total deposits in all of the banks.
288. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltBecause of undermined confidence on the part of the public, there was a general rush by a large portion of our population to turn bank deposits into …
289. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltThe reason for this was that on the spur of the moment it was, of course, impossible to sell perfectly sound assets of a bank and convert them into …
290. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltBy the afternoon of March 3d scarcely a bank in the country was open to do business. Proclamations temporarily closing them in whole or in part had …
291. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltIt was then that I issued the proclamation providing for the nationwide bank holiday,
292. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltThe second step was the legislation promptly and patriotically passed by the Congress confirming my proclamation and broadening my powers so that it …
293. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltThe third stage has been the series of regulations permitting the banks to continue their functions to take care of the distribution of food and …
294. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltNo sound bank is a dollar worse off than it was when it closed its doors last Monday.
295. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltNeither is any bank which may turn out not to be in a position for immediate opening.
296. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltThe new law allows the twelve Federal Reserve Banks to issue additional currency on good assets and thus the banks which reopen will be able to meet …
297. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltThe new currency is being sent out by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in large volume to every part of the country. It is sound currency because …
298. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltAs a result, we start tomorrow, Monday, with the opening of banks in the twelve Federal Reserve Bank cities—those banks which on first examination by …
299. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltThis will be followed on Tuesday by the resumption of all their functions by banks already found to be sound in cities where there are recognized …
300. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltOn Wednesday and succeeding days banks in smaller places all through the country will resume business, subject, of course, to the Government's …
301. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltIt is necessary that the reopening of banks be extended over a period in order to permit the banks to make applications for necessary loans, to …
302. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltA bank that opens on one of the subsequent days is in exactly the same status as the bank that opens tomorrow.
303. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltI know that many people are worrying about State banks not members of the Federal Reserve System.
304. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltThese State banks are following the same course as the National banks except that they get their licenses to resume business from the State …
305. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltI am confident that the State Banking Departments will be as careful as the national Government in the policy relating to the opening of banks and …
306. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltIt is possible that when the banks resume a very few people who have not recovered from their fear may again begin withdrawals.
307. 1933Franklin D. Rooseveltit is my belief that hoarding during the past week has become an exceedingly unfashionable pastime.
308. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltIt needs no prophet to tell you that when the people find that they can get their money— that they can get it when they want it for all legitimate …
309. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltI can assure you that it is safer to keep your money in a reopened bank than under the mattress.
310. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltMore liberal provision has been made for banks to borrow on these assets at the Reserve Banks and more liberal provision has also been made for …
311. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltThis currency is not fiat currency. It is issued only on adequate security, and every good bank has an abundance of such security.
312. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltThere will be, of course, some banks unable to reopen without being reorganized.
313. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltThe new law allows the Government to assist in making these reorganizations quickly and effectively and even allows the Government to subscribe to at …
314. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltWe had a bad banking situation.
315. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltSome of our bankers had shown themselves either incompetent or dishonest in their handling of the people's funds. They had used the money entrusted …
316. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltThis was, of course, not true in the vast majority of our banks, but it was true in enough of them to shock the people for a time into a sense of …
317. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltIt was the Government's job to straighten out this situation and do it as quickly as possible. And the job is being performed.
318. 1933Franklin D. Rooseveltand there would have been more and greater losses had we continued to drift.
319. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltConfidence and courage are the essentials of success in carrying out our plan.
320. 1933Franklin D. RooseveltWe have provided the machinery to restore our financial system;
321. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltWhen four years ago we met to inaugurate a President, the Republic, single-minded in anxiety, stood in spirit here.
322. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltWe dedicated ourselves to the fulfillment of a vision—to speed the time when there would be for all the people that security and peace essential to …
323. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltWe did those first things first.
324. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltOur covenant with ourselves did not stop there.
325. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltRepeated attempts at their solution without the aid of government had left us baffled and bewildered.
326. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltFor, without that aid, we had been unable to create those moral controls over the services of science which are necessary to make science a useful …
327. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltTo do this we knew that we must find practical controls over blind economic forces and blindly selfish men.
328. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltWe of the Republic sensed the truth that democratic government has innate capacity to protect its people against disasters once considered …
329. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltWe would not admit that we could not find a way to master economic epidemics just as, after centuries of fatalistic suffering, we had found a way to …
330. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltWe refused to leave the problems of our common welfare to be solved by the winds of chance and the hurricanes of disaster.
331. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltThis year marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Constitutional Convention which made us a nation.
332. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltAt that Convention our forefathers found the way out of the chaos which followed the Revolutionary War; they created a strong government with powers …
333. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltFour years of new experience have not belied our historic instinct.
334. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltThey hold out the clear hope that government within communities, government within the separate States, and government of the United States can do …
335. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltOur tasks in the last four years did not force democracy to take a holiday.
336. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltNearly all of us recognize that as intricacies of human relationships increase, so power to govern them also must increase--power to stop evil; power …
337. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltIn fact, in these last four years, we have made the exercise of all power more democratic; for we have begun to bring private autocratic powers into …
338. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltThey have been challenged and beaten.
339. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltOur progress out of the depression is obvious.
340. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltOur pledge was not merely to do a patchwork job with second-hand materials.
341. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltBy using the new materials of social justice we have undertaken to erect on the old foundations a more enduring structure for the better use of …
342. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltIn that purpose we have been helped by achievements of mind and spirit. Old truths have been relearned; untruths have been unlearned.
343. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltWe have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.
344. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltOut of the collapse of a prosperity whose builders boasted their practicality has come the conviction that in the long run economic morality pays.
345. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltThis new understanding undermines the old admiration of worldly success as such. We are beginning to abandon our tolerance of the abuse of power by …
346. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltIn this process evil things formerly accepted will not be so easily condoned. Hard-headedness will not so easily excuse hardheartedness.
347. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltWe are moving toward an era of good feeling.
348. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltFor these reasons I am justified in believing that the greatest change we have witnessed has been the change in the moral climate of America.
349. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltAmong men of good will, science and democracy together offer an ever-richer life and ever-larger satisfaction to the individual.
350. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltWith this change in our moral climate and our rediscovered ability to improve our economic order, we have set our feet upon the road of enduring …
351. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltMany voices are heard as we face a great decision.
352. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltTrue, we have come far from the days of stagnation and despair. Vitality has been preserved. Courage and confidence have been restored. Mental and …
353. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltBut our present gains were won under the pressure of more than ordinary circumstance. Advance became imperative under the goad of fear and suffering. …
354. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltTo hold to progress today, however, is more difficult. Dulled conscience, irresponsibility, and ruthless self-interest already reappear.
355. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltSuch symptoms of prosperity may become portents of disaster!
356. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltProsperity already tests the persistence of our progressive purpose.
357. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltI see a great nation, upon a great continent, blessed with a great wealth of natural resources.
358. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltIts hundred and thirty million people are at peace among themselves; they are making their country a good neighbor among the nations.
359. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltI see a United States which can demonstrate that, under democratic methods of government, national wealth can be translated into a spreading volume …
360. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltIn this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens—a substantial part of its whole population—who at this very moment are denied the greater part …
361. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltI see millions of families trying to live on incomes so meager that the pall of family disaster hangs over them day by day.
362. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltI see millions whose daily lives in city and on farm continue under conditions labeled indecent by a so-called polite society half a century ago.
363. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltI see millions denied education, recreation, and the opportunity to better their lot and the lot of their children.
364. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltI see millions lacking the means to buy the products of farm and factory and by their poverty denying work and productiveness to many other millions.
365. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltI see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
366. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltOverwhelmingly, we of the Republic are men and women of good will; men and women who have more than warm hearts of dedication; men and women who have …
367. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltGovernment is competent when all who compose it work as trustees for the whole people. It can make constant progress when it keeps abreast of all the …
368. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltIn every land there are always at work forces that drive men apart and forces that draw men together. In our personal ambitions we are individualists.
369. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltTo maintain a democracy of effort requires a vast amount of patience in dealing with differing methods, a vast amount of humility.
370. 1937Franklin D. RooseveltBut out of the confusion of many voices rises an understanding of dominant public need.
371. 1945Harry S. TrumanSIXTEEN HOURS AGO an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima,
372. 1945Harry S. TrumanThat bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of T.N.T. It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British "Grand Slam" which is the …
373. 1945Harry S. TrumanThe Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor.
374. 1945Harry S. TrumanWith this bomb we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction to supplement the growing power of our armed forces.
375. 1945Harry S. TrumanIn their present form these bombs are now in production and even more powerful forms are in development.
376. 1945Harry S. TrumanIt is an atomic bomb.
377. 1945Harry S. TrumanThe force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.
378. 1945Harry S. TrumanBefore 1939, it was the accepted belief of scientists that it was theoretically possible to release atomic energy. But no one knew any practical …
379. 1945Harry S. TrumanBy 1942, however, we knew that the Germans were working feverishly to find a way to add atomic energy to the other engines of war with which they …
380. 1945Harry S. TrumanBeginning in 1940, before Pearl Harbor, scientific knowledge useful in war was pooled between the United States and Great Britain, and many priceless …
381. 1945Harry S. TrumanUnder that general policy the research on the atomic bomb was begun.
382. 1945Harry S. TrumanWith American and British scientists working together we entered the race of discovery against the Germans.
383. 1945Harry S. TrumanThe United States had available the large number of scientists of distinction in the many needed areas of knowledge. It had the tremendous industrial …
384. 1945Harry S. TrumanIn the United States the laboratory work and the production plants, on which a substantial start had already been made, would be out of reach of …
385. 1945Harry S. TrumanWe now have two great plants and many lesser works devoted to the production of atomic power. Employment during peak construction numbered 125,000 …
386. 1945Harry S. TrumanFew know what they have been producing.
387. 1945Harry S. TrumanThey see great quantities of material going in and they see nothing coming out of these plants, for the physical size of the explosive charge is …
388. 1945Harry S. TrumanBut the greatest marvel is not the size of the enterprise, its secrecy, nor its cost, but the achievement of scientific brains in putting together …
389. 1945Harry S. TrumanAnd hardly less marvelous has been the capacity of industry to design, and of labor to operate, the machines and methods to do things never done …
390. 1945Harry S. TrumanBoth science and industry worked under the direction of the United States Army, which achieved a unique success in managing so diverse a problem in …
391. 1945Harry S. TrumanWhat has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science in history. It was done under high pressure and without failure.
392. 1945Harry S. TrumanIt was to spare the Japanese people from utter destruction that the ultimatum of July 26 was issued at Potsdam.
393. 1945Harry S. TrumanHis statement will give facts concerning the sites at Oak Ridge near Knoxville, Tennessee, and at Richland near Pasco, Washington, and an …
394. 1945Harry S. TrumanAtomic energy may in the future supplement the power that now comes from coal, oil, and falling water, but at present it cannot be produced on a …
395. 1945Harry S. TrumanNormally, therefore, everything about the work with atomic energy would be made public.
396. 1947George C. MarshallThat must be apparent to all intelligent people.
397. 1947George C. MarshallI think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by press and radio …
398. 1947George C. MarshallFurthermore, the people of this country are distant from the troubled areas of the earth, and it is hard for them to comprehend the plight and …
399. 1947George C. MarshallIn considering the requirements for the rehabilitation of Europe, the physical loss of life, the visible destruction of cities, factories, mines, and …
400. 1947George C. MarshallFor the past ten years conditions have been highly abnormal. The feverish preparation for war and the more feverish maintenance of the war effort …
401. 1947George C. MarshallUnder the arbitrary and destructive Nazi rule, virtually every possible enterprise was geared into the German war machine.
402. 1947George C. MarshallLong-standing commercial ties, private institutions, banks, insurance companies, and shipping companies disappeared through loss of capital, …
403. 1947George C. MarshallRecovery has been seriously retarded by the fact that two years after the close of hostilities a peace settlement with Germany and Austria has not …
404. 1947George C. MarshallBut even given a more prompt solution of these difficult problems, the rehabilitation of the economic structure of Europe quite evidently will …
405. 1947George C. MarshallThere is a phase of this matter which is both interesting and serious.
406. 1947George C. MarshallThe farmer has always produced the foodstuffs to exchange with the city dweller for the other necessities of life. This division of labor is the …
407. 1947George C. MarshallThe town and city industries are not producing adequate goods to exchange with the food-producing farmer. Raw materials and fuel are in short supply. …
408. 1947George C. MarshallThe farmer or the peasant cannot find the goods for sale which he desires to purchase. So the sale of his farm produce for money which he cannot use …
409. 1947George C. MarshallHe, therefore, has withdrawn many fields from crop cultivation and he's using them for grazing. He feeds more grain to stock and finds for himself …
410. 1947George C. MarshallMeanwhile, people in the cities are short of food and fuel, and in some places approaching the starvation levels.
411. 1947George C. MarshallSo, the governments are forced to use their foreign money and credits to procure these necessities abroad. This process exhausts funds which are …
412. 1947George C. MarshallThe truth of the matter is that Europe's requirements for the next three or four years of foreign food and other essential products -- principally …
413. 1947George C. MarshallThe remedy seems to lie in breaking the vicious circle and restoring the confidence of the people of Europe in the economic future of their own …
414. 1947George C. MarshallThe manufacturer and the farmer throughout wide areas must be able and willing to exchange their product for currencies, the continuing value of …
415. 1947George C. MarshallAside from the demoralizing effect on the world at large and the possibilities of disturbances arising as a result of the desperation of the people …
416. 1947George C. MarshallIt is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without …
417. 1947George C. MarshallIts purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free …
418. 1947George C. MarshallSuch assistance, I am convinced, must not be on a piecemeal basis, as various crises develop.
419. 1947George C. MarshallAny assistance that this Government may render in the future should provide a cure rather than a mere palliative.
420. 1947George C. MarshallIt is already evident that before the United States Government can proceed much further in its efforts to alleviate the situation and help start the …
421. 1947George C. MarshallIt would be neither fitting nor efficacious for our Government to undertake to draw up unilaterally a program designed to place Europe on its feet …
422. 1947George C. MarshallThe role of this country should consist of friendly aid in the drafting of a European program and of later support of such a program so far as it may …
423. 1947George C. MarshallThe program should be a joint one, agreed to by a number, if not all, European nations.
424. 1947George C. MarshallAn essential part of any successful action on the part of the United States is an understanding on the part of the people of America of the character …
425. 1947George C. MarshallWith foresight, and a willingness on the part of our people to face up to the vast responsibility which history has clearly placed upon our country, …
426. 1947George C. MarshallBut, to my mind, it is of vast importance that our people reach some general understanding of what the complications really are, rather than react …
427. 1947George C. MarshallIt is virtually impossible at this distance merely by reading, or listening, or even seeing photographs and motion pictures, to grasp at all the real …
428. 1947George C. MarshallAnd yet the whole world of the future hangs on a proper judgment. It hangs, I think, to a large extent on the realization of the American people, of …
429. 1947Harry S. TrumanIt is my deep conviction that we have reached a turning point in the long history of our country's efforts to guarantee freedom and equality to all …
430. 1947Harry S. TrumanRecent events in the United States and abroad have made us realize that it is more important today than ever before to insure that all Americans …
431. 1947Harry S. TrumanThe civil rights laws written in the early years of our Republic, and the traditions which have been built upon them, are precious to us.
432. 1947Harry S. TrumanThose laws were drawn up with the memory still fresh in men's minds of the tyranny of an absentee government. They were written to protect the …
433. 1947Harry S. TrumanAs Americans, we believe that every man should be free to live his life as he wishes.
434. 1947Harry S. TrumanHe should be limited only by his responsibility to his fellow countrymen.
435. 1947Harry S. TrumanThe only limit to an American's achievement should be his ability, his industry, and his character. These rewards for his effort should be determined …
436. 1947Harry S. TrumanThere is no justifiable reason for discrimination because of ancestry, or religion, or race, or color.
437. 1947Harry S. TrumanEvery man should have the right to a decent home, the right to an education, the right to adequate medical care, the right to a worthwhile job, the …
438. 1947Harry S. TrumanPrejudice and intolerance in which these evils are rooted still exist.
439. 1947Harry S. TrumanThe conscience of our Nation, and the legal machinery which enforces it, have not yet secured to each citizen full freedom from fear.
440. 1947Harry S. TrumanThe aftermath of war and the desire to keep faith with our Nation's historic principles make the need a pressing one.
441. 1947Harry S. TrumanFreedom is not an easy lesson to teach, nor an easy cause to sell, to peoples beset by every kind of privation.
442. 1947Harry S. TrumanThey may surrender to the false security offered so temptingly by totalitarian regimes unless we can prove the superiority of democracy.
443. 1947Harry S. TrumanOur case for democracy should be as strong as we can make it.
444. 1947Harry S. TrumanIt should rest on practical evidence that we have been able to put our own house in order.
445. 1947Harry S. TrumanThere is much that State and local governments can do in providing positive safeguards for civil rights.
446. 1947Harry S. TrumanThis is a difficult and complex undertaking.
447. 1947Harry S. TrumanAs a first step, I appointed an Advisory Committee on Civil Rights last December.
448. 1947Harry S. TrumanIts members, fifteen distinguished private citizens, have been surveying our civil rights difficulties and needs for several months.
449. 1947Harry S. TrumanI am confident that the product of their work will be a sensible and vigorous program for action by all of us.
450. 1947Harry S. TrumanThis step, with others which will follow, is evidence to the rest of the world of our confidence in the ability of all men to build free institutions.
451. 1947Harry S. TrumanThe way ahead is not easy. We shall need all the wisdom, imagination and courage we can muster.
452. 1947Harry S. TrumanNever before has the need been so urgent for skillful and vigorous action to bring us closer to our ideal.
453. 1947Harry S. TrumanWe can reach the goal.
454. 1947Harry S. TrumanWhen past difficulties faced our Nation we met the challenge with inspiring charters of human rights-the Declaration of Independence, the …
455. 1947Harry S. TrumanToday our representatives, and those of other liberty-loving countries on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, are preparing an …
456. 1947Harry S. TrumanWe can be confident that it will be a great landmark in man's long search for freedom since its members consist of such distinguished citizens of the …
457. 1947Harry S. TrumanAbraham Lincoln understood so well the ideal which you and I seek today.
458. 1948Hiss and ChambersI am now perfectly prepared to identify this man as George Crosley.
459. 1948Hiss and ChambersC-r-o-s-l-e-y.
460. 1948Hiss and ChambersThat is my recollection.
461. 1948Hiss and ChambersI have a rather good visual memory, and my recollection of his spelling of his name is C-r-o-s-l-e-y.
462. 1948Hiss and ChambersI don't think that would change as much as his appearance.
463. 1948Hiss and ChambersThis occurred in 1935.
464. 1948Hiss and ChambersThe only people that I can think of who would have known him as George Crosley with certainty would have been the people who were associated with me …
465. 1948Hiss and ChambersI am afraid I will have to confer with the individual members.
466. 1948Hiss and ChambersThe people, as I recall them, who were on that staff—and they were in and out of Washington constantly—were Mr. Raushenbush.
467. 1948Hiss and ChambersI would like to consult Steve Raushenbush.
468. 1948Hiss and ChambersI don't know whether Crosley ever called on him.
469. 1948Hiss and ChambersI don't know.
470. 1948Hiss and ChambersHe is in Washington.
471. 1948Hiss and ChambersRobert Wohlford was one of the investigators.
472. 1948Hiss and ChambersDepartment of Justice.
473. 1948Hiss and ChambersI don't remember the name of the very efficient secretary to Mr. Raushenbush.
474. 1948Hiss and ChambersMiss Elsie Gullender, I think her name was.
475. 1948Hiss and ChambersIf his first call was at the central office and he was referred to me, Miss Gullender might remember him.
476. 1948Hiss and ChambersShe saw many, many people.
477. 1948Hiss and ChambersIf his first call was directly to me, as the press had a perfect right to come to any of us, directly and individually, and as the legal assistant, …
478. 1948Hiss and ChambersIn the cases he was handling, he saw practically all the press.
479. 1948Hiss and ChambersI heard him.
480. 1948Hiss and ChambersI certainly didn't.
481. 1948Hiss and ChambersOh, as far as I recall his conversations—and I may be confusing them with a lot of other conversations that went on in 1934 and 1935—politics were …
482. 1948Hiss and ChambersI had no reason to suspect George Crosley of being a Communist.
483. 1948Hiss and ChambersIt never occurred to me that he might be or whether that was of any significance to me if he was.
484. 1948Hiss and ChambersHe was a press representative and it was my duty to give him information, as I did any other member of the press.
485. 1948Hiss and ChambersIt was to the interest of the committee investigating the munitions industry, as its members and we of its staff saw it, to furnish guidance and …
486. 1948Hiss and ChambersI would like to say that to come here and discover that the ass under the lion's skin is Crosley, I don't know why your committee didn't pursue this …
487. 1948Hiss and ChambersThey were apparently more effective in getting information than the committee itself.
488. 1948Hiss and ChambersPositively on the basis of his own statement that he was in my apartment at the time when I say he was there.
489. 1948Hiss and ChambersI have no further question at all.
490. 1948Hiss and ChambersIf he had lost both eyes and taken his nose off, I would be sure.
491. 1948Hiss and ChambersYes, as far as I am concerned, on his own testimony.
492. 1948Hiss and ChambersPositive identification.
493. 1948Hiss and ChambersYou are touching me.
494. 1948Hiss and ChambersYou know who started this.
495. 1948Hiss and Chambersand I don't feel I should.
496. 1948Hiss and ChambersI thought the committee was interested in ascertaining truth.
497. 1948Hiss and Chambersbut I don't feel the committee has any proper or parliamentary right to ask such a question.
498. 1950Margaret Chase SmithIt is a national feeling of fear and frustration that could result in national suicide and the end of everything that we Americans hold dear.
499. 1950Margaret Chase SmithIt is a condition that comes from the lack of effective leadership in either the Legislative Branch or the Executive Branch of our Government.
500. 1950Margaret Chase Smithbecause too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political opportunism.
501. 1950Margaret Chase SmithThe United States Senate has long enjoyed worldwide respect as the greatest deliberative body in the world.
502. 1950Margaret Chase SmithBut recently that deliberative character has too often been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the …
503. 1950Margaret Chase SmithIt is ironical that we Senators can in debate in the Senate directly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to any American, who is not a …
504. 1950Margaret Chase SmithIt is strange that we can verbally attack anyone else without restraint and with full protection and yet we hold ourselves above the same type of …
505. 1950Margaret Chase SmithSurely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal.
506. 1950Margaret Chase SmithThose of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, …
507. 1950Margaret Chase SmithOtherwise none of us could call our souls our own. Otherwise thought control would have set in.
508. 1950Margaret Chase SmithFreedom of speech is not what it used to be in America. It has been so abused by some that it is not exercised by others.
509. 1950Margaret Chase SmithBut there have been enough proved cases to cause nationwide distrust and strong suspicion that there may be something to the unproved, sensational …
510. 1950Margaret Chase SmithAs a Republican, I say to my colleagues on this side of the aisle that the Republican Party faces a challenge today that is not unlike the challenge …
511. 1950Margaret Chase SmithThe Republican Party so successfully met that challenge that it emerged from the Civil War as the champion of a united nation -- in addition to being …
512. 1950Margaret Chase SmithToday our country is being psychologically divided by the confusion and the suspicions that are bred in the United States Senate to spread like …
513. 1950Margaret Chase SmithToday we have a Democratic Administration that has developed a mania for loose spending and loose programs.
514. 1950Margaret Chase SmithThe record of the present Democratic Administration has provided us with sufficient campaign issues without the necessity of resorting to political …
515. 1950Margaret Chase SmithAmerica is rapidly losing its position as leader of the world simply because the Democratic Administration has pitifully failed to provide effective …
516. 1950Margaret Chase SmithThe Democratic Administration has completely confused the American people by its daily contradictory grave warnings and optimistic assurances -- that …
517. 1950Margaret Chase SmithThe Democratic Administration has greatly lost the confidence of the American people by its complacency to the threat of communism here at home and …
518. 1950Margaret Chase SmithSurely these are sufficient reasons to make it clear to the American people that it is time for a change and that a Republican victory is necessary …
519. 1950Margaret Chase SmithYet to displace it with a Republican regime embracing a philosophy that lacks political integrity or intellectual honesty would prove equally …
520. 1950Margaret Chase SmithThe nation sorely needs a Republican victory.
521. 1950Margaret Chase SmithI doubt if the Republican Party could -- simply because I don't believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political …
522. 1950Margaret Chase SmithSurely we Republicans aren't that desperate for victory.
523. 1950Margaret Chase SmithWhile it might be a fleeting victory for the Republican Party, it would be a more lasting defeat for the American people. Surely it would ultimately …
524. 1950Margaret Chase SmithAs members of the Minority Party, we do not have the primary authority to formulate the policy of our Government.
525. 1950Margaret Chase SmithThey are equally dangerous to you and me and to our country.
526. 1954Welch and McCarthyNot exactly, Mr. Chairman,
527. 1954Welch and McCarthyI think we should tell him that he has in his law firm a young man named Fisher whom he recommended, incidentally, to do work on this committee, who …
528. 1954Welch and McCarthyI certainly assume that Mr. Welch did not know of this young man at the time he recommended him as the assistant counsel for this committee,
529. 1954Welch and McCarthybut he has such terror and such a great desire to know where anyone is located who may be serving the Communist cause, Mr. Welch, that I thought we …
530. 1954Welch and McCarthyHe belonged to that for a sizable number of years, according to his own admission, and he belonged to it long after it had been exposed as the legal …
531. 1954Welch and McCarthyKnowing that, Mr. Welch, I just felt that I had a duty to respond to your urgent request that before sundown, when we know of anyone serving the …
532. 1954Welch and McCarthyI don't think you can find anyplace, anywhere, an organization which has done more to defend Communists--I am again quoting the report--to defend …
533. 1954Welch and McCarthyI have hesitated bringing that up,
534. 1954Welch and McCarthybut I have been rather bored with your phony requests to Mr. Cohn here that he personally get every Communist out of government before sundown.
535. 1954Welch and McCarthyWhether you knew he was a member of that Communist organization or not, I don't know. I assume you did not, Mr. Welch, because I get the impression …
536. 1954Welch and McCarthyI think you are unknowingly aiding it when you try to burlesque this hearing in which we are attempting to bring out the facts, however.
537. 1954Welch and McCarthyMr. Welch, the Chair should say he has no recognition or no memory of Mr. Welch's recommending either Mr. Fisher or anybody else as counsel for this …
538. 1954Welch and McCarthyI am listening to you.
539. 1954Welch and McCarthySenator McCarthy, I think until this moment--
540. 1954Welch and McCarthyFred Fisher is a young man who went to the Harvard Law School and came into my firm and is starting what looks to be a brilliant career with us.
541. 1954Welch and McCarthyWhen I decided to work for this committee I asked Jim St. Clair, who sits on my right, to be my first assistant.
542. 1954Welch and McCarthyHe chose Fred Fisher and they came down on an afternoon plane. That night, when he had taken a little stab at trying to see what the case was about, …
543. 1954Welch and McCarthyas you have suggested, Senator.
544. 1954Welch and McCarthySo, Senator, I asked him to go back to Boston.
545. 1954Welch and McCarthyIt is true he is still with Hale & Dorr.
546. 1954Welch and McCarthyIt is, I regret to say, equally true that I fear he shall always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by you.
547. 1954Welch and McCarthyMay I say that Mr. Welch talks about this being cruel and reckless.
548. 1954Welch and McCarthyHe was just baiting; he has been baiting Mr. Cohn here for hours, requesting that Mr. Cohn, before sundown, get out of any department of Government …
549. 1954Welch and McCarthyand I want to say, Mr. Welch, that it has been labeled long before he became a member, as early as 1944--
550. 1954Welch and McCarthyWe know he belonged to the Lawyers Guild,
551. 1954Welch and McCarthyI did you, I think, no personal injury, Mr. Cohn.
552. 1954Welch and McCarthyNo, sir.
553. 1954Welch and McCarthyYou have done enough.
554. 1954Welch and McCarthyI know this hurts you, Mr. Welch.
555. 1954Welch and McCarthySenator, I think it hurts you, too, sir.
556. 1954Welch and McCarthyMr. Welch has been filibustering this hearing, he has been talking day after day about how he wants to get anyone tainted with communism out before …
557. 1954Welch and McCarthyI know Mr. Cohn would rather not have me go into this.
558. 1954Welch and McCarthyMr. Welch talks about any sense of decency.
559. 1954Welch and McCarthyNow, that is not the language of Senator McCarthy.
560. 1954Welch and McCarthyIt seems that Mr. Welch is pained so deeply he thinks it is improper for me to give the record, the Communist-front record, of the man whom he wanted …
561. 1954Welch and McCarthyI want to have it very clear, very clear that you were not so serious about that when you tried to recommend this man for this committee.
562. 1954Welch and McCarthyAnd may I say, Mr. Welch, in fairness to you, I have reason to believe that you did not know about his Communist-front record at the time you …
563. 1954Welch and McCarthyI don't think you would have recommended him to the committee if you knew that.
564. 1954Welch and McCarthyI think it is entirely possible you learned that after you recommended him.
565. 1954Welch and McCarthyThe Chair would like to say again that he does not believe that Mr. Welch recommended Mr. Fisher as counsel for this committee, because he has …
566. 1954Welch and McCarthyYou have sat within 6 feet of me, and could have asked me about Fred Fisher. You have brought it out.
567. 1954Welch and McCarthyIf there is a God in heaven, it will do neither you nor your cause any good.
568. 1954Welch and McCarthyNo further questions, Mr. Chairman.
569. 1954Welch and McCarthyI just want to ask 1 or 2 questions, Mr. Chairman.
570. 1954Welch and McCarthyThe Chair's attention has been called to the fact that it is a quarter to four.
571. 1954Welch and McCarthyThat will be all right.
572. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerTo make this talk I have come to the President's office in the White House.
573. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerI could have spoken from Rhode Island, where I have been staying recently, but I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson and of …
574. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerIn that city, under the leadership of demagogic extremists, disorderly mobs have deliberately prevented the carrying out of proper orders from a …
575. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerThis morning the mob again gathered in front of the Central High School of Little Rock, obviously for the purpose of again preventing the carrying …
576. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerThis became necessary when my Proclamation of yesterday was not observed, and the obstruction of justice still continues.
577. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerDuring the past several years, many communities in our Southern States have instituted public school plans for gradual progress in the enrollment and …
578. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerThey thus demonstrated to the world that we are a nation in which laws, not men, are supreme.
579. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerI regret to say that this truth--the cornerstone of our liberties-was not observed in this instance.
580. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerIt was my hope that this localized situation would be brought under control by city and State authorities.
581. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerIf the use of local police powers had been sufficient, our traditional method of leaving the problems in those hands would have been pursued.
582. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerBut when large gatherings of obstructionists made it impossible for the decrees of the Court to be carried out, both the law and the national …
583. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerIn May of 1955, the Little Rock School Board approved a moderate plan for the gradual desegregation of the public schools in that city. It provided …
584. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerHere I might say that in a number of communities in Arkansas integration in the schools has already started and without violence of any kind.
585. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerThe United States Court at Little Rock, which has supervisory responsibility under the law for the plan of desegregation in the public schools, …
586. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerProper and sensible observance of the law then demanded the respectful obedience which the nation has a right to expect from all its people.
587. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerThis, unfortunately, has not been the case at Little Rock.
588. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerCertain misguided persons, many of them imported into Little Rock by agitators, have insisted upon defying the law and have sought to bring it into …
589. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerThe orders of the court have thus been frustrated.
590. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerThe very basis of our individual rights and freedoms rests upon the certainty that the President and the Executive Branch of Government will support …
591. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerUnless the President did so, anarchy would result.
592. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerThere would be no security for any except that which each one of us could provide for himself.
593. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerThe interest of the nation in the proper fulfillment of the law's requirements cannot yield to opposition and demonstrations by some few persons.
594. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerNor are the troops there for the purpose of taking over the responsibility of the School Board and the other responsible local officials in running …
595. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerThe running of our school system and the maintenance of peace and order in each of our States are strictly local affairs and the Federal Government …
596. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerThe proper use of the powers of the Executive Branch to enforce the orders of a Federal Court is limited to extraordinary and compelling …
597. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerManifestly, such an extreme situation has been created in Little Rock.
598. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerThe overwhelming majority of our people in every section of the country are united in their respect for observance of the law--even in those cases …
599. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerThey deplore the call of extremists to violence.
600. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerThe decision of the Supreme Court concerning school integration, of course, affects the South more seriously than it does other sections of the …
601. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerIn that region I have many warm friends, some of them in the city of Little Rock.
602. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerSo from intimate personal knowledge, I know that the overwhelming majority of the people in the South--including those of Arkansas and of Little …
603. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerThey do not sympathize with mob rule.
604. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerThey, like the rest of our nation, have proved in two great wars their readiness to sacrifice for America.
605. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerA foundation of our American way of life is our national respect for law.
606. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerIn the South, as elsewhere, citizens are keenly aware of the tremendous disservice that has been done to the people of Arkansas in the eyes of the …
607. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerAt a time when we face grave situations abroad because of the hatred that Communism bears toward a system of government based on human rights, it …
608. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerOur enemies are gloating over this incident and using it everywhere to misrepresent our whole nation.
609. 1957Dwight D. EisenhowerWe are portrayed as a violator of those standards of conduct which the peoples of the world united to proclaim in the Charter of the United Nations.
610. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerThree days from now, after half a century in the service of our country, I shall lay down the responsibilities of office as, in traditional and …
611. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerMy own relations with the Congress, which began on a remote and tenuous basis when, long ago, a member of the Senate appointed me to West Point, have …
612. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerIn this final relationship, the Congress and the Administration have, on most vital issues, cooperated well, to serve the national good rather than …
613. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerWe now stand ten years past the midpoint of a century that has witnessed four major wars among great nations. Three of these involved our own country.
614. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerDespite these holocausts America is today the strongest, the most influential and most productive nation in the world.
615. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerThroughout America's adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to foster progress in human achievement, and to …
616. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerTo strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people.
617. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerAny failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt both at home and …
618. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerProgress toward these noble goals is persistently threatened by the conflict now engulfing the world. It commands our whole attention, absorbs our …
619. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerUnhappily the danger it poses promises to be of indefinite duration.
620. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerOnly thus shall we remain, despite every provocation, on our charted course toward permanent peace and human betterment.
621. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerCrises there will continue to be.
622. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerA huge increase in newer elements of our defense; development of unrealistic programs to cure every ill in agriculture; a dramatic expansion in basic …
623. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerGood judgment seeks balance and progress; lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration.
624. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerThe record of many decades stands as proof that our people and their government have, in the main, understood these truths and have responded to them …
625. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerBut threats, new in kind or degree, constantly arise.
626. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerA vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment.
627. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerOur military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World …
628. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerUntil the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, …
629. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerBut now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast …
630. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerAdded to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more …
631. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerThis conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience.
632. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerThe total influence-economic, political, even spiritual--is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government.
633. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerWe recognize the imperative need for this development.
634. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerOur toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
635. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerThe potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
636. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerOnly an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful …
637. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerAkin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent …
638. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerIn this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, …
639. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerToday, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the …
640. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerPartly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.
641. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerFor every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
642. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerThe prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present--and is …
643. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerIt is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic …
644. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerAnother factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time.
645. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerWe cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage.
646. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerWe want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.
647. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerDisarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
648. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerHappily, I can say that war has been avoided. Steady progress toward our ultimate goal has been made.
649. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerBut, so much remains to be done.
650. 1961Dwight D. EisenhowerI trust that in that service you find some things worthy;
651. 1961John F. KennedyFor I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago.
652. 1961John F. KennedyThe world is very different now.
653. 1961John F. KennedyFor man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.
654. 1961John F. KennedyUnited, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures.
655. 1961John F. KennedyDivided, there is little we can do--for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.
656. 1961John F. KennedyWe shall not always expect to find them supporting our view.
657. 1961John F. KennedyIf a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
658. 1961John F. KennedyFor only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
659. 1961John F. KennedyBut neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course--both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, …
660. 1961John F. KennedySince this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty.
661. 1961John F. KennedyThe graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.
662. 1961John F. KennedyIn the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.
663. 1961John F. KennedyI do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation.
664. 1961John F. KennedyThe energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it--and the glow from that fire can …
665. 1963Fortas and the CourtThis case is here on writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of Florida.
666. 1963Fortas and the CourtThe question in the present case is whether requests being made by the accused that counsel be appointed to him, the accused being concededly …
667. 1963Fortas and the CourtIn other words, the present case involves a trial, a plea of not guilty. It involves a felony.
668. 1963Fortas and the CourtClarence Earl Gideon was convicted by the State of Florida for the violation of a statute which makes it a felony, unlawfully and feloniously, to …
669. 1963Fortas and the CourtHe was charged with breaking and entering the Pearl -- the Bay Harbor Poolroom in the city -- in Panama City, Florida. And having broken and entered …
670. 1963Fortas and the CourtThere is no evidence in the record as to the amount, but the amount must have been less than $100 because the statute of the State of Florida defines …
671. 1963Fortas and the CourtWhereupon, the case proceeded to trial, with Clarence Earl Gideon doing what he could --
672. 1963Fortas and the Court-- doing what he could to defend himself.
673. 1963Fortas and the CourtThere is some point -- the question whether or not its -- we have before us the trial transcript.
674. 1963Fortas and the CourtThat's correct.
675. 1963Fortas and the Court-- application in the State of Florida.
676. 1963Fortas and the CourtThey don't -- there's no variance between them and this copy.
677. 1963Fortas and the CourtNo, that's correct.
678. 1963Fortas and the CourtThat is -- that is my view, yes.
679. 1963Fortas and the CourtI must say, Your Honor, that it was at my request.
680. 1963Fortas and the CourtThe transcript was not before the Supreme Court of Florida.
681. 1963Fortas and the CourtAfter Gideon was convicted and sentenced, several months later he sent a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to the State of -- to the Supreme Court …
682. 1963Fortas and the CourtThat petition cited no special circumstances.
683. 1963Fortas and the CourtThe Supreme Court -- there were no supporting affidavits, there was no supporting information, and there was no supporting trial transcript.
684. 1963Fortas and the CourtGideon -- the Supreme Court of Florida denied the writ and dismissed the petition.
685. 1963Fortas and the CourtAnd they dismissed it without opinion without hearing or without reference for the taking of testimony whatever.
686. 1963Fortas and the CourtAnd it's from that denial that the case is here on Gideon's application, pro se, for a writ of certiorari.
687. 1963Fortas and the CourtAccordingly, the record before the Supreme Court of Florida consists of nothing except Gideon's old application for a writ of habeas corpus.
688. 1963Fortas and the CourtAfter the case came to this Court and this Court granted the writ of certiorari and I as counsel for Mr. Gideon, requested the clerk of this Court to …
689. 1963Fortas and the CourtI did that because I thought that the transcript should be here, that the Court should be -- this Court should be completely informed as to what had …
690. 1963Fortas and the CourtThat the Attorney General of Florida filed a motion to deny my request that the transcript be sent to this Court. That motion was -- the Attorney …
691. 1963Fortas and the CourtWe disagree, but for reasons that I shall come to, we do not believe that makes any difference whether the transcript is here or not.
692. 1963Fortas and the CourtThe reason for that is that I see no basis, or as -- I do not see an adequate basis for an argument that special circumstances exist in this case.
693. 1963Fortas and the CourtThis record is not -- does not indicate that Clarence Earl Gideon is a man of inferior natural talents. This record does not indicate that Clarence …
694. 1963Fortas and the CourtThis record does not indicate that the judge of the trial court in the State of Florida, or that the prosecuting attorney in the State of Florida, …
695. 1963Fortas and the CourtAnd the basic difficulty with Betts against Brady is that no man, certainly no layman, can conduct a trial in his own defense so that the trial is a …
696. 1963Fortas and the CourtIt did not deny the obvious. Obviously, a man is not represented -- who is not represented, who is not as -- hasn't had as good a shake in Court as …
697. 1963Fortas and the CourtBetts and Brady didn't go on any such basis as that.
698. 1963Fortas and the CourtThat's what I understood the basis of Betts and Brady to be, yes.
699. 1963Fortas and the CourtI read it as indicating both,
700. 1963Fortas and the CourtAnd the case that he makes is an entirely convincing case to me, just as in Gideon's case.
701. 1963Fortas and the CourtThere's -- there is error in this transcript. There is error in most criminal trials. I think we all know even where lawyers are present. There is …
702. 1963Fortas and the CourtBut I have suggested in my brief and I hope it's not a gross overstatement that -- to say that this transcript distinguishes this case from the run …
703. 1963Fortas and the CourtAnd I believe that -- I believe that this case dramatically illustrates the point that you cannot have a fair trial without counsel.
704. 1963Fortas and the CourtThat is our concept.
705. 1963Fortas and the CourtWell that isn't quite so simple as that because under our concepts in the federal system apart from the Sixth Amendment.
706. 1963Fortas and the CourtWe would consider that a man in a felony case hadn't had a fair shake if he wasn't tried before a jury.
707. 1963Fortas and the CourtThat's right.
708. 1963Fortas and the CourtWe can understand exactly what is that issue here.
709. 1963Lyndon B. JohnsonThe greatest leader of our time has been struck down by the foulest deed of our time.
710. 1963Lyndon B. JohnsonUnder John Kennedy's leadership, this Nation has demonstrated that it has the courage to seek peace, and it has the fortitude to risk war.
711. 1963Lyndon B. JohnsonWe have proved that we are a good and reliable friend to those who seek peace and freedom.
712. 1963Lyndon B. JohnsonWe have differences; but now, as in the past, we can derive from those differences strength, not weakness, wisdom, not despair.
713. 1963Lyndon B. JohnsonBoth as a people and a government, we can unite upon a program, a program which is wise and just, enlightened and constructive.
714. 1963Lyndon B. JohnsonI have shared many moments of pride with you, pride in the ability of the Congress of the United States to act, to meet any crisis, to distill from …
715. 1963Lyndon B. JohnsonAn assassin's bullet has thrust upon me the awesome burden of the Presidency.
716. 1963Lyndon B. JohnsonThis Nation has experienced a profound shock,
717. 1963Lyndon B. JohnsonWe have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for one hundred years or more.
718. 1963Lyndon B. JohnsonThere could be no greater source of strength to this Nation both at home and abroad.
719. 1963Lyndon B. JohnsonThis is a bill designed to increase our national income and Federal revenues, and to provide insurance against recession.
720. 1963Lyndon B. JohnsonThat bill, if passed without delay, means more security for those now working, more jobs for those now without them, and more incentive for our …
721. 1963Lyndon B. JohnsonAs one who has long served in both Houses of the Congress, I firmly believe in the independence and the integrity of the legislative branch.
722. 1963Lyndon B. JohnsonWith equal firmness, I believe in the capacity and I believe in the ability of the Congress, despite the divisions of opinions which characterize our …
723. 1963John F. KennedyAnd, therefore, I was privileged to accept the invitation somewhat rendered to me in the same way that Franklin Roosevelt rendered his invitation to …
724. 1963John F. KennedyAmherst has had many soldiers of the king since its first one, and some of them are here today: Mr. McCloy, who has long been a public servant; Jim …
725. 1963John F. KennedyThese and scores of others down through the years have recognized the obligations of the advantages which the graduation from a college such as this …
726. 1963John F. KennedyThe library being constructed today, this college, itself--all of this, of course, was not done merely to give this school's graduates an advantage, …
727. 1963John F. KennedyAlthough Amherst has been in the forefront of extending aid to needy and talented students, private colleges, taken as a whole, draw 50 percent of …
728. 1963John F. KennedyIn March 1962, persons of 18 years or older who had not completed high school made up 46 percent of the total labor force, and such persons comprised …
729. 1963John F. KennedyThere is inherited wealth in this country and also inherited poverty.
730. 1963John F. KennedyAnd unless the graduates of this college and other colleges like it who are given a running start in life--unless they are willing to put back into …
731. 1963John F. KennedyThe problems which this country now faces are staggering, both at home and abroad.
732. 1963John F. KennedyAll this requires the best of all of us.
733. 1963John F. Kennedyand to say to those who are now here that the need is endless,
734. 1963John F. Kennedyfor Robert Frost was one of the granite figures of our time in America.
735. 1963John F. KennedyA nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.
736. 1963John F. KennedyIn America, our heroes have customarily run to men of large accomplishments.
737. 1963John F. KennedyIn honoring Robert Frost, we therefore can pay honor to the deepest sources of our national strength.
738. 1963John F. KennedyThat strength takes many forms, and the most obvious forms are not always the most significant.
739. 1963John F. KennedyThe men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as …
740. 1963John F. KennedyOur national strength matters, but the spirit which informs and controls our strength matters just as much.
741. 1963John F. KennedyThis was the special significance of Robert Frost. He brought an unsparing instinct for reality to bear on the platitudes and pieties of society. His …
742. 1963John F. KennedyAnd because he knew the midnight as well as the high noon, because he understood the ordeal as well as the triumph of the human spirit, he gave his …
743. 1963John F. KennedyAt bottom, he held a deep faith in the spirit of man, and it is hardly an accident that Robert Frost coupled poetry and power, for he saw poetry as …
744. 1963John F. KennedyWhen power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of …
745. 1963John F. KennedyFor art establishes the basic human truth which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment.
746. 1963John F. KennedyThe artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive …
747. 1963John F. KennedyIn pursuing his perceptions of reality, he must often sail against the currents of his time. This is not a popular role.
748. 1963John F. KennedyIf Robert Frost was much honored during his lifetime, it was because a good many preferred to ignore his darker truths.
749. 1963John F. KennedyYet in retrospect, we see how the artist's fidelity has strengthened the fibre of our national life.
750. 1963John F. KennedyIf sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must …
751. 1963John F. KennedyI see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist.
752. 1963John F. KennedyIn free society art is not a weapon and it does not belong to the sphere of polemics and ideology. Artists are not engineers of the soul. It may be …
753. 1963John F. KennedyIn serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation.
754. 1963John F. KennedyAnd the nation which disdains the mission of art invites the fate of Robert Frost's hired man, the fate of having "nothing to look backward to with …
755. 1963John F. KennedyRobert Frost was often skeptical about projects for human improvement, yet I do not think he would disdain this hope.
756. 1963John F. KennedyBecause of Mr. Frost's life and work, because of the life and work of this college, our hold on this planet has increased.
757. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonThree and a half centuries ago the first Negroes arrived at Jamestown.
758. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonThey came in darkness and they came in chains.
759. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonWhen pioneers subdued a continent to the need of man, they did not tame it for the Negro. When the Liberty Bell rang out in Philadelphia, it did not …
760. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonIt was only at Appomattox, a century ago, that an American victory was also a Negro victory.
761. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonAnd the two rivers--one shining with promise, the other dark-stained with oppression--began to move toward one another.
762. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonYet, for almost a century the promise of that day was not fulfilled.
763. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonIn our time the two currents will finally mingle and rush as one great stream across the uncertain and the marvelous years of the America that is yet …
764. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonMillions of Americans are denied the right to vote because of their color.
765. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonThe wrong is one which no American, in his heart, can justify.
766. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonThe right is one which no American, true to our principles, can deny.
767. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonIn less than 48 hours I sent the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the Congress.
768. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonIn little more than 4 months the Congress, with overwhelming majorities, enacted one of the most monumental laws in the entire history of American …
769. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonBut they had been tried. For years and years they had been tried, and tried, and tried, and they had failed, and failed, and failed.
770. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonBut however viewed, the denial of the right to vote is still a deadly wrong.
771. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonWherever, by clear and objective standards, States and counties are using regulations, or laws, or tests to deny the right to vote, then they will be …
772. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonThis good Congress, the 89th Congress, acted swiftly in passing this act.
773. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonThis will begin the legal process which, I confidently believe, will very soon prohibit any State from requiring the payment of money in order to …
774. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonSo, through this act, and its enforcement, an important instrument of freedom passes into the hands of millions of our citizens.
775. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonPresidents and Congresses, laws and lawsuits can open the doors to the polling places and open the doors to the wondrous rewards which await the wise …
776. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonYour future, and your children's future, depend upon it, and I don't believe that you are going to let them down.
777. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonIf you do this, then you will find, as others have found before you, that the vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking …
778. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonToday what is perhaps the last of the legal barriers is tumbling.
779. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonThere will be many actions and many difficulties before the rights woven into law are also woven into the fabric of our Nation.
780. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonFor centuries of oppression and hatred have already taken their painful toll. It can be seen throughout our land in men without skills, in children …
781. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonFor it is not enough just to give men rights. They must be able to use those rights in their personal pursuit of happiness.
782. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonThe wounds and the weaknesses, the outward walls and the inward scars which diminish achievement are the work of American society.
783. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonIt is difficult to fight for freedom.
784. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonBut I also know how difficult it can be to bend long years of habit and custom to grant it.
785. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonThere is no room for injustice anywhere in the American mansion.
786. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonBut there is always room for understanding toward those who see the old ways crumbling.
787. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonIt must come. It is right that it should come.
788. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonAnd when it has, you will find that a burden has been lifted from your shoulders, too.
789. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonIt is not just a question of guilt, although there is that. It is that men cannot live with a lie and not be stained by it.
790. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonThe central fact of American civilization--one so hard for others to understand--is that freedom and justice and the dignity of man are not just …
791. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonAnd so, as long as some among us are oppressed--and we are part of that oppression--it must blunt our faith and sap the strength of our high purpose.
792. 1965Lyndon B. JohnsonAnd every family across this great, entire, searching land will live stronger in liberty, will live more splendid in expectation, and will be prouder …
793. 1973Richard NixonRichard Smyser, from the Oak Ridger in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
794. 1973Richard Nixonand most of you probably would understand because you are busy also.
795. 1973Richard NixonNineteen hundred seventy-two was a very busy year for me.
796. 1973Richard NixonIt was a year when we had the visit to China.
797. 1973Richard NixonIt was a year when we had the visit to Moscow and the first limited nuclear ban on defensive weapons, you recall, as well as some other very …
798. 1973Richard NixonIt was a year, too, when we had the very difficult decisions on May 8, the bombing and mining of Haiphong and then the negotiations and then in …
799. 1973Richard NixonNow, during that period of time, frankly, I didn't manage the campaign. I didn't run the campaign.
800. 1973Richard NixonPeople around me didn't bring things to me that they probably should have, because I was frankly just too busy trying to do the Nation's business to …
801. 1973Richard NixonI used to run mine, and I Was always criticized for it, because, you know, whenever you lose you are always criticized for running your own campaign.
802. 1973Richard NixonBut my point is, Senator Hatfield is correct.
803. 1973Richard NixonWhether you are a Senator or a Congressman, you are sometimes very busy, you don't watch these things.
804. 1973Richard NixonWhen you are President, you don't watch them as closely as you might.
805. 1973Richard NixonThe man at the top has got to take the heat for all of them.
806. 1973Richard NixonI noted in some editorials and perhaps in some commentaries on television, a very reasonable question.
807. 1973Richard Nixonin which I have two houses, one which I primarily use as an office and the other as a residence, and also an investment in what was my mother's home, …
808. 1973Richard NixonI want to say first, that is all I have.
809. 1973Richard NixonI am the first President since Harry Truman who hasn't owned any stock since ever I have been President. I am the first one who has not had a blind …
810. 1973Richard NixonBut I felt that in the Presidency it was important to have no question about the President's personal finances, and I thought real estate was the …
811. 1973Richard NixonThe newspapers did much better than television in that respect, I should point out.
812. 1973Richard NixonWell, I should point out I wasn't a pauper when I became President.
813. 1973Richard NixonI wasn't very rich as Presidents go.
814. 1973Richard NixonIn the next 8 years, I made a lot of money.
815. 1973Richard NixonI made $250,000 from a book and the serial rights which many of you were good enough to purchase, also.
816. 1973Richard NixonBut also in that period, I earned between $100,000 and $250,000 every year.
817. 1973Richard NixonSo that when I, in 1968, decided to become a candidate for President, I decided to clean the decks and to put everything in real estate.
818. 1973Richard NixonI sold all my stock for $300,000--that is all I owned.
819. 1973Richard NixonI sold my apartment in New York for $300,000--I am using rough figures here.
820. 1973Richard NixonAnd I had $100,000 coming to me from the law firm.
821. 1973Richard NixonAnd so, that is where the money came from.
822. 1973Richard NixonI made my mistakes,
823. 1973Richard Nixonbut in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service--I have earned every cent.
824. 1973Richard NixonAnd in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice.
825. 1973Richard NixonAnd I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination,
826. 1973Richard NixonWell, I am not a crook.
827. 1973Richard NixonI have earned everything I have got.
828. 1973Nixon and DeanWell, first of all, there's the, there's the problem of the continued blackmail
829. 1973Nixon and Deanwhich will not only go on now, it'll go on when these people are in prison, and it will compound the obstruction of justice situation.
830. 1973Nixon and DeanIt'll cost money. It's dangerous.
831. 1973Nixon and DeanNobody, nothing — people around here are not pros at this sort of thing.
832. 1973Nixon and DeanThis is the sort of thing Mafia people can do: washing money, getting clean money, and things like that, uh — we're —
833. 1973Nixon and DeanWe just don't know about those things, because we're not used to, you know —
834. 1973Nixon and DeanThat's right.
835. 1973Nixon and DeanIt's a tough thing to know how to do.
836. 1973Nixon and DeanMaybe we can't even do that.
837. 1973Nixon and DeanThat's right.
838. 1973Nixon and DeanIt's a real problem as to whether we could even do it.
839. 1973Nixon and DeanPlus there's a real problem in raising money.
840. 1973Nixon and DeanUh, Mitchell has been working on raising some money.
841. 1973Nixon and DeanUh, feeling he's got, you know, he's got one, he's one of the ones with the most to lose.
842. 1973Nixon and DeanUh, but there's no denying the fact that the White House, and, uh, Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Dean are involved in some of the early money decisions.
843. 1973Nixon and DeanI would say these people are going to cost, uh, a million dollars over the next, uh, two years.
844. 1973Nixon and DeanYou, on the money, if you need the money, I mean, uh, you could get the money.
845. 1973Nixon and DeanWell, I think that we're going —
846. 1973Nixon and DeanAnd you could get it in cash.
847. 1973Nixon and DeanI, I know where it could be gotten.
848. 1973Nixon and DeanI mean it's not easy, but it could be done.
849. 1973Nixon and DeanThat's right.
850. 1973Nixon and DeanI would think so too.
851. 1973Nixon and DeanWell, he's got one person doing it who I am not sure is —
852. 1973Nixon and DeanHe's got Fred LaRue, uh, doing it.
853. 1973Nixon and DeanNow Fred started out going out trying to
854. 1973Nixon and Deansolicit money from all kinds of people.
855. 1973Nixon and DeanUh, people are going to ask what the money is for.
856. 1973Nixon and DeanHe's working — He's apparently talked to Tom Pappas.
857. 1973Nixon and DeanI know.
858. 1973Nixon and DeanMitchell.
859. 1973Nixon and DeanYou need, uh, you don't need a million right away, but you need a million.
860. 1973Nixon and DeanThat's right.
861. 1973Nixon and DeanUm, no.
862. 1973Nixon and DeanWell, they've got a pr—, they've got priests, and they—
863. 1973Nixon and DeanThat would give some for the Cubans and possibly Hunt.
864. 1973Nixon and DeanUh, then you've got Liddy, and McCord is not, not accepting any money.
865. 1973Nixon and DeanSo, he's, he is not a bought man right now.
866. 1973Nixon and DeanBud Krogh, in his testimony before the Grand Jury, was forced to perjure himself.
867. 1973Nixon and DeanUh, he is haunted by it.
868. 1973Nixon and DeanHe did.
869. 1973Nixon and DeanThat's right.
870. 1973Nixon and DeanThey didn't press him hard, or that he—
871. 1973Nixon and DeanHe might be able to —
872. 1973Nixon and DeanPerjury is an awful hard rap to prove.
873. 1973Nixon and DeanHe could say that I—Well, go ahead.
874. 1973Nixon and DeanWell, so that's, that's the first, that's one perjury.
875. 1973Nixon and DeanNow, Mitchell and, and, uh, Magruder are potential perjuries.
876. 1973Nixon and DeanThere is always the possibility of any one of these individuals blowing. Hunt. Liddy.
877. 1973Nixon and DeanLiddy is in jail right now; he's serving his — trying to get good time right now.
878. 1973Nixon and DeanI think Liddy is probably, in his, in his own bizarre way, the strongest of all of them.
879. 1973Nixon and DeanUh, so there's, there is that possibility.
880. 1973Nixon and DeanWell, your, your major, your major guy to keep under control is Hunt.
881. 1973Nixon and DeanThat's right.
882. 1973Nixon and DeanBecause he knows
883. 1973Nixon and DeanHe knows so much.
884. 1973Nixon and Deanabout a lot of other things.
885. 1973Nixon and DeanHe knows so much.
886. 1973Nixon and DeanUh, he could sink Chuck Colson.
887. 1973Nixon and DeanApparently, apparently he is quite distressed with Colson. He thinks Colson has abandoned him.
888. 1973Nixon and DeanUh, Colson was to meet with him when he was out there, after, now he had left the White House. He met with him through his lawyer.
889. 1973Nixon and Deanthat is, uh, I talked to Mitchell about that last night,
890. 1973Nixon and DeanMight as well.
891. 1973Nixon and DeanThat's right; that's right.
892. 1973Nixon and Deanin order to have any options.
893. 1973Nixon and DeanThat's right.
894. 1973Nixon and DeanWell that, you know, that's the, that's the question.
895. 1973Nixon and DeanYou've got Hunt;
896. 1973Nixon and DeanAll right, now we've got—
897. 1973Nixon and Deanyou've got Krogh, and you've got—
898. 1973Nixon and DeanNow we've got Kalmbach.
899. 1973Nixon and DeanYeah, that's a tough one.
900. 1973Nixon and DeanKalmbach received
901. 1973Nixon and Deanat the close of the, of the, uh, '68 campaign, in January of '69, he got a million seven dollars, uh, a million seven hundred thousand dollars to be …
902. 1973Nixon and DeanThat came down from New York.
903. 1973Nixon and DeanIt was placed in safe deposit boxes here.
904. 1973Nixon and DeanUh, some other people were on the boxes, and ultimately, the money was taken out to California.
905. 1973Nixon and DeanAll right, there is knowledge of the fact that he did start with a million seven.
906. 1973Nixon and DeanSeveral people know this.
907. 1973Nixon and DeanNow since '69, he's spent a good deal of this money and, and, uh, accounting for it is going to be very difficult for Herb.
908. 1973Nixon and DeanFor example, he's spent — oh — close to five hundred thousand dollars on private polling.
909. 1973Nixon and DeanNow that just opens up a whole new thing.
910. 1973Nixon and DeanIt's not illegal, but, uh, it's more of the same sort of thing.
911. 1973Richard NixonI have asked for this radio and television time tonight for the purpose of announcing that we today have concluded an agreement to end the war
912. 1973Richard NixonA cease-fire, internationally supervised, will begin at 7 p.m., this Saturday, January 27, Washington time.
913. 1973Richard NixonWithin 60 days from this Saturday, all Americans held prisoners of war throughout Indochina will be released.
914. 1973Richard NixonThere will be the fullest possible accounting for all of those who are missing in action.
915. 1973Richard NixonDuring the same 60-day period, all American forces will be withdrawn from South Vietnam.
916. 1973Richard NixonBy joint agreement, the full text of the agreement and the protocol to carry it out will be issued tomorrow.
917. 1973Richard NixonThroughout these negotiations we have been in the closest consultation with President Thieu and other representatives of the Republic of Vietnam.
918. 1973Richard NixonThis settlement meets the goals and has the full support of President Thieu and the Government of the Republic of Vietnam, as well as that of our …
919. 1973Richard Nixonand we shall expect the other parties to do everything it requires of them.
920. 1973Richard NixonWe shall also expect other interested nations to help insure that the agreement is carried out and peace is maintained.
921. 1973Richard NixonBy your courage, by your sacrifice, you have won the precious right to determine your own future,
922. 1973Richard Nixonand you have developed the strength to defend that right.
923. 1973Richard NixonBut just as reciprocity was needed to end the war, so too will it be needed to build and strengthen the peace.
924. 1973Richard NixonYour steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
925. 1973Richard NixonI know that you would not have wanted that peace jeopardized.
926. 1973Richard NixonWith our secret negotiations at the sensitive stage they were in during this recent period, for me to have discussed publicly our efforts to secure …
927. 1973Richard NixonThis we have done.
928. 1973Richard NixonIn particular, I would like to say a word to some of the bravest people I have ever met--the wives, the children, the families of our prisoners of …
929. 1973Richard Nixonyou had the courage to stand for the right kind of peace so that those who died and those who suffered would not have died and suffered in vain, and …
930. 1973Richard NixonJust yesterday, a great American, who once occupied this office, died.
931. 1973Richard NixonIn his life, President Johnson endured the vilification of those who sought to portray him as a man of war.
932. 1973Richard NixonBut there was nothing he cared about more deeply than achieving a lasting peace in the world.
933. 1973Richard NixonI remember the last time I talked with him. It was just the day after New Year's.
934. 1973Richard NixonNo one would have welcomed this peace more than he.
935. 1974Gerald FordI have come to a decision which I felt I should tell you and all of my fellow American citizens,
936. 1974Gerald FordI have learned already in this office that the difficult decisions always come to this desk.
937. 1974Gerald FordMy customary policy is to try and get all the facts and to consider the opinions of my countrymen and to take counsel with my most valued friends.
938. 1974Gerald FordBut these seldom agree, and in the end, the decision is mine.
939. 1974Gerald FordI have asked your help and your prayers, not only when I became President but many times since.
940. 1974Gerald FordAs we are a nation under God, so I am sworn to uphold our laws with the help of God.
941. 1974Gerald FordAnd I have sought such guidance and searched my own conscience with special diligence to determine the right thing for me to do with respect to my …
942. 1974Gerald FordIt could go on and on and on,
943. 1974Gerald FordI have concluded that only I can do that,
944. 1974Gerald FordThere are no historic or legal precedents to which I can turn in this matter, none that precisely fit the circumstances of a private citizen who has …
945. 1974Gerald FordBut it is common knowledge that serious allegations and accusations hang like a sword over our former President's head, threatening his health as he …
946. 1974Gerald FordAfter years of bitter controversy and divisive national debate, I have been advised, and I am compelled to conclude that many months and perhaps more …
947. 1974Gerald FordThe facts, as I see them, are that a former President of the United States, instead of enjoying equal treatment with any other citizen accused of …
948. 1974Gerald FordDuring this long period of delay and potential litigation, ugly passions would again be aroused. And our people would again be polarized in their …
949. 1974Gerald FordIn the end, the courts might well hold that Richard Nixon had been denied due process, and the verdict of history would even more be inconclusive …
950. 1974Gerald FordBut it is not the ultimate fate of Richard Nixon that most concerns me,
951. 1974Gerald Fordthough surely it deeply troubles every decent and every compassionate person.
952. 1974Gerald FordMy concern is the immediate future of this great country.
953. 1974Gerald FordMy conscience tells me that only I, as President, have the constitutional power to firmly shut and seal this book.
954. 1974Gerald FordFinally, I feel that Richard Nixon and his loved ones have suffered enough and will continue to suffer, no matter what I do, no matter what we, as a …
955. 1974Richard Nixonand it will be so reported in the press, and we don't mind, because they have to call it as they see it.
956. 1974Richard NixonYou are here to say goodby [See APP note.] to us,
957. 1974Richard NixonI just met with the members of the White House staff, you know, those who serve here in the White House day in and day out,
958. 1974Richard Nixonbecause this office, great as it is, can only be as great as the men and women who work for and with the President.
959. 1974Richard NixonThis house, for example--I was thinking of it as we walked down this hall, and I was comparing it to some of the great houses of the world that I …
960. 1974Richard NixonBut this is the best house.
961. 1974Richard NixonThis house has a great heart, and that heart comes from those who serve.
962. 1974Richard NixonWe said goodby to them upstairs. But they are really great.
963. 1974Richard NixonAnd I recall after so many times I have made speeches, and some of them pretty tough, yet, I always come back, or after a hard day--and my days …
964. 1974Richard NixonBut I want you to know that each and every one of you, I know, is indispensable to this Government.
965. 1974Richard NixonNo man or no woman came into this Administration and left it with more of this world's goods than when he came in. No man or no woman ever profited …
966. 1974Richard NixonThat tells something about you.
967. 1974Richard NixonMistakes, yes. But for personal gain, never.
968. 1974Richard NixonYou did what you believed in. Sometimes right, sometimes wrong.
969. 1974Richard NixonIt is a cause bigger than yourself. It is the cause of making this the greatest nation in the world, the leader of the world,
970. 1974Richard Nixonbecause without our leadership, the world will know nothing but war, possibly starvation or worse, in the years ahead. With our leadership it will …
971. 1974Richard NixonThey look at government and say, sort of a rugged life, and they see the mistakes that are made. They get the impression that everybody is here for …
972. 1974Richard NixonAnd I say to them, there are many fine careers. This country needs good farmers, good businessmen, good plumbers, good carpenters.
973. 1974Richard NixonI think that they would have called him sort of a little man, common man. He didn't consider himself that way.
974. 1974Richard NixonHe was a streetcar motorman first, and then he was a farmer, and then he had a lemon ranch. It was the poorest lemon ranch in California, I can …
975. 1974Richard NixonNobody will ever write a book, probably, about my mother.
976. 1974Richard NixonYes, she will have no books written about her.
977. 1974Richard NixonI had a little quote in the speech last night from T.R. As you know, I kind of like to read books.
978. 1974Richard NixonHe was a young lawyer in New York. He had married a beautiful girl, and they had a lovely daughter, and then suddenly she died, and this is what he …
979. 1974Richard NixonThat was T.R. in his twenties.
980. 1974Richard NixonHe thought the light had gone from his life forever--but he went on.
981. 1974Richard NixonWe think sometimes when things happen that don't go the right way; we think that when you don't pass the bar exam the first time--I happened to, but …
982. 1974Richard NixonWe think that when someone dear to us dies, we think that when we lose an election, we think that when we suffer a defeat that all is ended.
983. 1974Richard NixonIt is only a beginning, always.
984. 1974Richard Nixonbecause the greatness comes not when things go always good for you, but the greatness comes and you are really tested, when you take some knocks, …
985. 1974Richard NixonI can only say to each and every one of you, we come from many faiths, we pray perhaps to different gods--but really the same God in a sense--but I …
986. 1974Richard NixonEach time I have done so to discuss with you some matter that I believe affected the national interest.
987. 1974Richard NixonIn all the decisions I have made in my public life, I have always tried to do what was best for the Nation.
988. 1974Richard NixonThroughout the long and difficult period of Watergate, I have felt it was my duty to persevere, to make every possible effort to complete the term of …
989. 1974Richard NixonAs long as there was such a base, I felt strongly that it was necessary to see the constitutional process through to its conclusion, that to do …
990. 1974Richard NixonI would have preferred to carry through to the finish, whatever the personal agony it would have involved,
991. 1974Richard NixonBut the interests of the Nation must always come before any personal considerations.
992. 1974Richard NixonFrom the discussions I have had with Congressional and other leaders, I have concluded that because of the Watergate matter, I might not have the …
993. 1974Richard NixonBut as President, I must put the interests of America first.
994. 1974Richard NixonAmerica needs a full-time President and a full-time Congress, particularly at this time with problems we face at home and abroad.
995. 1974Richard NixonTo continue to fight through the months ahead for my personal vindication would almost totally absorb the time and attention of both the President …
996. 1974Richard NixonVice President Ford will be sworn in as President at that hour in this office.
997. 1974Richard NixonBut in turning over direction of the Government to Vice President Ford, I know, as I told the Nation when I nominated him for that office 10 months …
998. 1974Richard NixonIn passing this office to the Vice President, I also do so with the profound sense of the weight of responsibility that will fall on his shoulders …
999. 1974Richard NixonAs he assumes that responsibility, he will deserve the help and the support of all of us.
1000. 1974Richard NixonBy taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of that process of healing which is so desperately needed in America.
1001. 1974Richard NixonI would say only that if some of my judgments were wrong--and some were wrong--they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest …
1002. 1974Richard Nixonbecause all of us, in the final analysis, have been concerned with the good of the country, however our judgments might differ.
1003. 1974Richard NixonThese years have been a momentous time in the history of our Nation and the world. They have been a time of achievement in which we can all be proud, …
1004. 1974Richard NixonBut the challenges ahead are equally great, and they, too, will require the support and the efforts of the Congress and the people working in …
1005. 1974Richard NixonWe have ended America's longest war,
1006. 1974Richard NixonWe have unlocked the doors that for a quarter of a century stood between the United States and the People's Republic of China.
1007. 1974Richard NixonIn the Middle East, 100 million people in the Arab countries, many of whom have considered us their enemy for nearly 20 years, now look on us as …
1008. 1974Richard NixonTogether with the Soviet Union, we have made the crucial breakthroughs that have begun the process of limiting nuclear arms.
1009. 1974Richard NixonWe have opened the new relation with the Soviet Union.
1010. 1974Richard NixonFor more than a quarter of a century in public life, I have shared in the turbulent history of this era. I have fought for what I believed in. I have …
1011. 1974Richard NixonThere is one cause above all to which I have been devoted and to which I shall always be devoted for as long as I live.
1012. 1974Richard NixonI have done my very best in all the days since to be true to that pledge.
1013. 1974Richard NixonAs a result of these efforts, I am confident that the world is a safer place today, not only for the people of America but for the people of all …
1014. 1974Richard NixonTo have served in this office is to have felt a very personal sense of kinship with each and every American.
1015. 1977Jimmy CarterHere before me is the Bible used in the inauguration of our first President, in 1789, and I have just taken the oath of office on the Bible my mother …
1016. 1977Jimmy CarterTwo centuries ago, our Nation's birth was a milestone in the long quest for freedom.
1017. 1977Jimmy CarterBut the bold and brilliant dream which excited the founders of this Nation still awaits its consummation.
1018. 1977Jimmy CarterOurs was the first society openly to define itself in terms of both spirituality and human liberty.
1019. 1977Jimmy CarterYou have given me a great responsibility--to stay close to you, to be worthy of you, and to exemplify what you are.
1020. 1977Jimmy CarterYour strength can compensate for my weakness, and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes.
1021. 1977Jimmy CarterThe American dream endures.
1022. 1977Jimmy CarterI believe America can be better. We can be even stronger than before.
1023. 1977Jimmy CarterWe recall in special times when we have stood briefly, but magnificently, united. In those times no prize was beyond our grasp.
1024. 1977Jimmy CarterWe have already found a high degree of personal liberty, and we are now struggling to enhance equality of opportunity.
1025. 1977Jimmy CarterWe have learned that more is not necessarily better, that even our great Nation has its recognized limits, and that we can neither answer all …
1026. 1977Jimmy CarterOur Nation can be strong abroad only if it is strong at home.
1027. 1977Jimmy CarterAnd we know that the best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
1028. 1977Jimmy CarterThe world itself is now dominated by a new spirit.
1029. 1977Jimmy CarterPeoples more numerous and more politically aware are craving, and now demanding, their place in the sun--not just for the benefit of their own …
1030. 1977Jimmy CarterThe passion for freedom is on the rise.
1031. 1977Jimmy CarterTapping this new spirit, there can be no nobler nor more ambitious task for America to undertake on this day of a new beginning than to help shape a …
1032. 1977Jimmy CarterWe are a strong nation,
1033. 1977Jimmy CarterWe are a proudly idealistic nation,
1034. 1977Jimmy CarterOur moral sense dictates a clear-cut preference for those societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights.
1035. 1977Jimmy Carterbut it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.
1036. 1977Jimmy CarterThe world is still engaged in a massive armaments race designed to ensure continuing equivalent strength among potential adversaries.
1037. 1977Jimmy CarterWithin us, the people of the United States, there is evident a serious and purposeful rekindling of confidence.
1038. 1983Ronald ReaganThe man whose words and deeds in that crisis stirred our nation to the very depths of its soul was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1039. 1983Ronald ReaganMartin Luther King was born in 1929 in an America where, because of the color of their skin, nearly 1 in 10 lived lives that were separate and …
1040. 1983Ronald ReaganMost black Americans were taught in segregated schools. Across the country, too many could find only poor jobs, toiling for low wages. They were …
1041. 1983Ronald ReaganIn a nation that proclaimed liberty and justice for all, too many black Americans were living with neither.
1042. 1983Ronald ReaganIn one city, a rule required all blacks to sit in the rear of public buses.
1043. 1983Ronald ReaganA young minister in a local Baptist church, Martin Luther King, then organized a boycott of the bus company—a boycott that stunned the country.
1044. 1983Ronald ReaganWithin 6 months the courts had ruled the segregation of public transportation unconstitutional.
1045. 1983Ronald ReaganIn the years after the bus boycott, Dr. King made equality of rights his life's work. Across the country, he organized boycotts, rallies, and marches.
1046. 1983Ronald ReaganOften he was beaten, imprisoned, but he never stopped teaching nonviolence.
1047. 1983Ronald ReaganIn 1964 Dr. King became the youngest man in history to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
1048. 1983Ronald ReaganDr. King's work brought him to this city often. And in one sweltering August day in 1963, he addressed a quarter of a million people at the Lincoln …
1049. 1983Ronald ReaganIf American history grows from two centuries to twenty, his words that day will never be forgotten.
1050. 1983Ronald ReaganIn 1968 Martin Luther King was gunned down by a brutal assassin, his life cut short at the age of 39.
1051. 1983Ronald ReaganBut those 39 short years had changed America forever.
1052. 1983Ronald ReaganThe Civil Rights Act of 1964 had guaranteed all Americans equal use of public accommodations, equal access to programs financed by Federal funds,
1053. 1983Ronald ReaganThe Voting Rights Act of 1965 had made certain that from then on black Americans would get to vote.
1054. 1983Ronald ReaganThe conscience of America had been touched.
1055. 1983Ronald ReaganAcross the land, people had begun to treat each other not as blacks and whites, but as fellow Americans.
1056. 1983Ronald ReaganAnd since Dr. King's death, his father, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr., and his wife, Coretta King, have eloquently and forcefully carried on …
1057. 1983Ronald ReaganAlso his family have joined in that cause.
1058. 1983Ronald ReaganNow our nation has decided to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., by setting aside a day each year to remember him and the just cause he stood for.
1059. 1983Ronald ReaganWe've made historic strides since Rosa Parks refused to go to the back of the bus.
1060. 1983Ronald ReaganAs a democratic people, we can take pride in the knowledge that we Americans recognized a grave injustice and took action to correct it.
1061. 1983Ronald ReaganBut traces of bigotry still mar America.
1062. 1983Ronald ReaganAnd I just have to believe that all of us—if all of us, young and old, Republicans and Democrats, do all we can to live up to those Commandments, …
1063. 1983Ronald Reaganas the highest recognition which this nation gives is bestowed upon Martin Luther King, Jr., one who also was the recipient of the highest …
1064. 1983Ronald ReaganIn his own life's example, he symbolized what was right about America, what was noblest and best, what human beings have pursued since the beginning …
1065. 1983Ronald ReaganHe loved unconditionally. He was in constant pursuit of truth, and when he discovered it, he embraced it.
1066. 1983Ronald ReaganHis nonviolent campaigns brought about redemption, reconciliation, and justice.
1067. 1983Ronald ReaganAmerica is a more democratic nation, a more just nation, a more peaceful nation because Martin Luther King, Jr., became her preeminent nonviolent …
1068. 1983Ronald ReaganMartin Luther King, Jr., and his spirit live within all of us.
1069. 1984Ronald ReaganFor 4 long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for …
1070. 1984Ronald ReaganHere in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.
1071. 1984Ronald ReaganWe stand on a lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France.
1072. 1984Ronald ReaganThe air is soft, but 40 years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men, and the air was filled with the crack of rifle …
1073. 1984Ronald ReaganAt dawn, on the morning of the 6th of June, 1944, 225 Rangers jumped off the British landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs.
1074. 1984Ronald ReaganTheir mission was one of the most difficult and daring of the invasion: to climb these sheer and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns.
1075. 1984Ronald ReaganThe Rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers—the edge of the cliffs shooting down at them with machine-guns and throwing grenades. And the …
1076. 1984Ronald ReaganSoon, one by one, the Rangers pulled themselves over the top, and in seizing the firm land at the top of these cliffs, they began to seize back the …
1077. 1984Ronald ReaganTwo hundred and twenty-five came here. After 2 days of fighting, only 90 could still bear arms.
1078. 1984Ronald ReaganBehind me is a memorial that symbolizes the Ranger daggers that were thrust into the top of these cliffs.
1079. 1984Ronald ReaganAnd before me are the men who put them there.
1080. 1984Ronald ReaganWell, everyone was.
1081. 1984Ronald ReaganForty years ago today, British troops were pinned down near a bridge, waiting desperately for help. Suddenly, they heard the sound of bagpipes, and …
1082. 1984Ronald ReaganThere was the impossible valor of the Poles who threw themselves between the enemy and the rest of Europe as the invasion took hold, and the …
1083. 1984Ronald ReaganThey knew what awaited them there, but they would not be deterred. And once they hit Juno Beach, they never looked back.
1084. 1984Ronald ReaganAll of these men were part of a roll call of honor with names that spoke of a pride as bright as the colors they bore: the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, …
1085. 1984Ronald ReaganForty summers have passed since the battle that you fought here.
1086. 1984Ronald ReaganYou were young the day you took these cliffs; some of you were hardly more than boys, with the deepest joys of life before you. Yet, you risked …
1087. 1984Ronald ReaganWe look at you, and somehow we know the answer.
1088. 1984Ronald ReaganThe men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them …
1089. 1984Ronald ReaganYou were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your cause.
1090. 1984Ronald ReaganAnd you were right not to doubt.
1091. 1984Ronald ReaganYou all knew that some things are worth dying for.
1092. 1984Ronald ReaganOne's country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
1093. 1984Ronald ReaganAll of you loved liberty. All of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people of your countries were behind you.
1094. 1984Ronald ReaganThe Americans who fought here that morning knew word of the invasion was spreading through the darkness back home.
1095. 1984Ronald ReaganThey fought—or felt in their hearts, though they couldn't know in fact, that in Georgia they were filling the churches at 4 a.m., in Kansas they were …
1096. 1984Ronald ReaganSomething else helped the men of D-day: their rock-hard belief that Providence would have a great hand in the events that would unfold here; that God …
1097. 1984Ronald ReaganWhen the war was over, there were lives to be rebuilt and governments to be returned to the people. There were nations to be reborn. Above all, there …
1098. 1984Ronald ReaganBut the Allies summoned strength from the faith, belief, loyalty, and love of those who fell here. They rebuilt a new Europe together.
1099. 1984Ronald ReaganThere was first a great reconciliation among those who had been enemies, all of whom had suffered so greatly.
1100. 1984Ronald ReaganThe United States did its part, creating the Marshall plan to help rebuild our allies and our former enemies.
1101. 1984Ronald ReaganThe Marshall plan led to the Atlantic alliance—a great alliance that serves to this day as our shield for freedom, for prosperity, and for peace.
1102. 1984Ronald ReaganIn spite of our great efforts and successes, not all that followed the end of the war was happy or planned. Some liberated countries were lost.
1103. 1984Ronald ReaganThe great sadness of this loss echoes down to our own time in the streets of Warsaw, Prague, and East Berlin.
1104. 1984Ronald ReaganSoviet troops that came to the center of this continent did not leave when peace came. They're still there, uninvited, unwanted, unyielding, almost …
1105. 1984Ronald ReaganBecause of this, allied forces still stand on this continent.
1106. 1984Ronald ReaganToday, as 40 years ago, our armies are here for only one purpose—to protect and defend democracy.
1107. 1984Ronald ReaganWe in America have learned bitter lessons from two World Wars: It is better to be here ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across …
1108. 1984Ronald ReaganBut we try always to be prepared for peace; prepared to deter aggression; prepared to negotiate the reduction of arms; and, yes, prepared to reach …
1109. 1984Ronald ReaganIn truth, there is no reconciliation we would welcome more than a reconciliation with the Soviet Union, so, together, we can lessen the risks of war, …
1110. 1984Ronald ReaganIt's fitting to remember here the great losses also suffered by the Russian people during World War II: 20 million perished, a terrible price that …
1111. 1984Ronald ReaganI tell you from my heart that we in the United States do not want war.
1112. 1984Ronald ReaganWe want to wipe from the face of the Earth the terrible weapons that man now has in his hands•
1113. 1984Ronald ReaganWe are bound today by what bound us 40 years ago, the same loyalties, traditions, and beliefs.
1114. 1984Ronald ReaganThe strength of America's allies is vital to the United States, and the American security guarantee is essential to the continued freedom of Europe's …
1115. 1984Ronald ReaganWe were with you then;
1116. 1985Ronald ReaganWhat we have seen makes unforgettably clear that no one of the rest of us can fully understand the enormity of the feelings carried by the victims of …
1117. 1985Ronald ReaganThe survivors carry a memory beyond anything that we can comprehend.
1118. 1985Ronald ReaganHere lie people—Jews—whose death was inflicted for no reason other than their very existence.
1119. 1985Ronald ReaganTheir pain was borne only because of who they were and because of the God in their prayers.
1120. 1985Ronald ReaganAlongside them lay many Christians—Catholics and Protestants.
1121. 1985Ronald ReaganFor year after year, until that man and his evil were destroyed, hell yawned forth its awful contents.
1122. 1985Ronald ReaganPeople were brought here for no other purpose but to suffer and die—to go unfed when hungry, uncared for when sick, tortured when the whim struck, …
1123. 1985Ronald ReaganI'm sure we all share similar first thoughts, and that is:
1124. 1985Ronald ReaganAll was gone for them forever—not to feel again the warmth of life's sunshine and promise, not the laughter and the splendid ache of growing up, nor …
1125. 1985Ronald ReaganToday, we've been grimly reminded why the commandant of this camp was named "the Beast of Belsen."
1126. 1985Ronald ReaganAnd that's what we've seen but is what we can never understand as the victims did. Nor with all our compassion can we feel what the survivors feel to …
1127. 1985Ronald ReaganBecause of what happened, we found that death cannot rule forever, and that's why we're here today.
1128. 1985Ronald ReaganTherefore, even out of this overwhelming sadness, there must be some purpose, and there is. It comes to us through the transforming love of God.
1129. 1985Ronald ReaganYes, out of this sickness-as crushing and cruel as it was—there was hope for the world as well as for the world to come.
1130. 1985Ronald ReaganOut of the ashes—hope, and from all the pain—promise.
1131. 1985Ronald ReaganYour nation and the German people have been strong and resolute in your willingness to confront and condemn the acts of a hated regime of the past.
1132. 1985Ronald ReaganThis reflects the courage of your people and their devotion to freedom and justice since the war.
1133. 1985Ronald ReaganSurely we can understand that when we see what is around us—all these children of God under bleak and lifeless mounds, the plainness of which does …
1134. 1985Ronald ReaganHere they lie, never to hope, never to pray, never to love, never to heal, never to laugh, never to cry.
1135. 1985Ronald ReaganAnd too many of them knew that this was their fate, but that was not the end. Through it all was their faith and a spirit that moved their faith.
1136. 1985Ronald ReaganFor more than 2 years Anne Frank and her family had hidden from the Nazis in a confirmed annex in Holland where she kept a remarkably profound diary.
1137. 1985Ronald ReaganBetrayed by an informant, Anne and her family were sent by freight car first to Auschwitz and finally here to Bergen-Belsen.
1138. 1985Ronald ReaganEight months later, this sparkling young life ended here at Bergen-Belsen.
1139. 1985Ronald ReaganSomewhere here lies Anne Frank.
1140. 1985Ronald ReaganEverywhere here are memories—pulling us, touching us, making us understand that they can never be erased.
1141. 1985Ronald ReaganThey beckon us through the endless stretches of our heart to the knowing commitment that the life of each individual can change the world and make it …
1142. 1985Ronald Reaganwe share the glistening hope that rests in every human soul.
1143. 1986Ronald ReaganOur nation's loss is first a profound personal loss to the family and the friends and the loved ones of our shuttle astronauts.
1144. 1986Ronald ReaganWords pale in the shadow of grief; they seem insufficient even to measure the brave sacrifice of those you loved and we so admired.
1145. 1986Ronald ReaganThey came from all parts of this great country—from South Carolina to Washington State; Ohio to Mohawk, New York; Hawaii to North Carolina to …
1146. 1986Ronald ReaganThey were so different; yet in their mission, their quest, they held so much in common.
1147. 1986Ronald Reaganthe commander who spoke the last words we heard from the space shuttle Challenger.
1148. 1986Ronald ReaganHe served as a fighter pilot in Vietnam earning many medals for bravery and later as a test pilot of advanced aircraft before joining the space …
1149. 1986Ronald Reaganwho earned enough medals as a combat pilot to cover his chest, including the Navy Distinguished Flying Cross, three Air Medals, and the Vietnamese …
1150. 1986Ronald Reaganknown as J.R. to her friends, always smiling, always eager to make a contribution, finding beauty in the music she played on her piano in her …
1151. 1986Ronald Reaganwho as a child running barefoot through the coffee fields and macadamia groves of Hawaii dreamed of someday traveling to the Moon.
1152. 1986Ronald ReaganHis dream was to live aboard the space station, performing experiments and playing his saxophone in the weightlessness of space.
1153. 1986Ronald Reaganwho captured the imagination of the entire Nation; inspiring us with her pluck, her restless spirit of discovery;
1154. 1986Ronald ReaganOn the day of the disaster, our nation held a vigil by our television sets.
1155. 1986Ronald ReaganThe sacrifice of your loved ones has stirred the soul of our nation and through the pain our hearts have been opened to a profound truth:
1156. 1986Ronald ReaganIt was built by men and women like our seven star voyagers, who answered a call beyond duty, who gave more than was expected or required, and who …
1157. 1986Ronald ReaganWe think back to the pioneers of an earlier century, the sturdy souls who took their families and their belongings and set out into the frontier of …
1158. 1986Ronald ReaganAlong the Oregon Trail, you could still see the grave markers of those who fell on the way, but grief only steeled them to the journey ahead.
1159. 1986Ronald ReaganSometimes when we reach for the stars, we fall short.
1160. 1986Ronald ReaganOur nation is indeed fortunate that we can still draw on immense reservoirs of courage, character, and fortitude; that we're still blessed with …
1161. 1986Ronald ReaganDick Scobee knew that every launching of a space shuttle is a technological miracle.
1162. 1986Ronald ReaganThe dedicated men and women of NASA have lost seven members of their family.
1163. 1986Ronald ReaganFor those who knew you well and loved you, the pain will be deep and enduring.
1164. 1986Ronald ReaganA nation, too, will long feel the loss of her seven sons and daughters, her seven good friends.
1165. 1986Ronald ReaganWe can find consolation only in faith, for we know in our hearts that you who flew so high and so proud now make your home beyond the stars, safe in …
1166. 1987North and NieldsExhibit 122, is a resolution of inquiry.
1167. 1987North and NieldsIt relates to you and it seeks information about funding concerning the contras, military advice and asked specific questions about Robert Owen, …
1168. 1987North and NieldsRight.
1169. 1987North and NieldsI did.
1170. 1987North and NieldsI don't remember if there was any staff or not.
1171. 1987North and NieldsI defer to Chairman Hamilton;
1172. 1987North and Nieldshe convened his group in the White House Situation Room, and I met with him there.
1173. 1987North and NieldsThere's a memorandum which was done by staff, which is Exhibit 126.
1174. 1987North and NieldsI do.
1175. 1987North and NieldsAnd it's dated August 6, 1986.
1176. 1987North and NieldsI—again, I defer to the Committee and Chairman Hamilton.
1177. 1987North and NieldsI had such a meeting.
1178. 1987North and NieldsIf that's when it was, I don't remember the date.
1179. 1987North and NieldsIt was on instructions of the National Security Advisor.
1180. 1987North and NieldsI was instructed to meet with Chairman Hamilton and, I believe, many of the members of the Committee.
1181. 1987North and NieldsExactly.
1182. 1987North and NieldsPrecisely.
1183. 1987North and NieldsThat's right.
1184. 1987North and NieldsYes.
1185. 1987North and NieldsI explained to them that there was no US Government money until more was appropriated, yes.
1186. 1987North and NieldsI did do that.
1187. 1987North and NieldsBut I take it you did considerably more, which you did not tell the committee about.
1188. 1987North and NieldsI have admitted that here before you today, knowing full well what I told the committee then.
1189. 1987North and NieldsAt that meeting.
1190. 1987North and NieldsFace-to-face.
1191. 1987North and NieldsI did.
1192. 1987North and NieldsOn my specific orders, I had—on specific orders to me, I had gone down there and assured them of our absolute and total discretion.
1193. 1987North and NieldsWe do, sir.
1194. 1987North and NieldsYes.
1195. 1987North and NieldsAnd, I would point out that part of that answer is that this Marine Lieutenant Colonel was not making all of those decisions on his own.
1196. 1987North and NieldsAs I indicated in my testimony yesterday, Mr. Nields, I sought approval for everything that I did.
1197. 1987North and NieldsBut, you denied Congress the facts—
1198. 1987North and NieldsI did.
1199. 1987North and NieldsYou denied the elected representatives of our people the facts upon which they needed—
1200. 1987North and NieldsI did.
1201. 1987North and Nields—to make a very important decision for this nation.
1202. 1987North and NieldsI did because of what I have just described to as our concerns, and I did it because we have had incredible leaks, from discussions with closed …
1203. 1987North and NieldsI, I, I was a part of, as people now know, the coordination for the mining of the harbors in Nicaragua.
1204. 1987North and NieldsWhen that one leaked, there were American lives at stake, and it leaked from a member of one of the committees, who eventually admitted it.
1205. 1987North and NieldsWhen there was a leak on the sensitive intelligence methods that we used to help capture the Achille Lauro terrorists, it almost wiped out that whole …
1206. 1987North and NieldsI mean, those kinds of things are devastating. They are devastating to the national security of the United States,
1207. 1987North and NieldsI was not specifically instructed, no.
1208. 1987North and NieldsYes.
1209. 1987North and NieldsMy superiors.
1210. 1987North and NieldsI prepared draft answers that they signed and sent.
1211. 1987North and NieldsWell who—look who sign—I didn't sign those letters to the—to this body.
1212. 1987North and NieldsI went down to that oral meeting with the same kind of understanding that I prepared those memos in 1985 and other communcations.
1213. 1987North and NieldsWell, you had a different boss,
1214. 1987North and NieldsHe did not specifically go down and say, "Ollie, lie to the committee."
1215. 1987North and NieldsI told him what I had said afterwards,
1216. 1987North and NieldsI deeply believe that the President of the United States is also an elected official of this land.
1217. 1987North and NieldsI believed, from the moment I was engaged in this activity in 1984, that this was in furtherance of the foreign policy established by the President.
1218. 1987North and NieldsAnd I have just placed myself, as you know, counsel, in great jeopardy.
1219. 1987Ronald ReaganWhen special interests and power brokers here in Washington balked at cutting your taxes, I asked for your help.
1220. 1987Ronald ReaganYou went to your Congressmen and Senators, and the tax cuts passed.
1221. 1987Ronald ReaganAnd by the way, as a result, at the end of this month we will mark the longest peacetime economic expansion on record.
1222. 1987Ronald ReaganIn the first few hours after our servicemen went to the rescue of young Americans and of democracy in Grenada, opponents here in Washington …
1223. 1987Ronald ReaganBut again I asked for your help, and you let your Congressmen and Senators know that you were proud of our men and women in uniform.
1224. 1987Ronald ReaganAnd soon Congress was giving full support to our policies.
1225. 1987Ronald ReaganYes, all that America has achieved in the last 6 1/2 years—our record economic expansion, the new pride we have at home, the new strength that may …
1226. 1987Ronald ReaganAs you know, I have selected one of the finest judges in America's history, Robert Bork, for the Supreme Court.
1227. 1987Ronald ReaganI'm doing this because what's now at stake in this battle must never in our land of freedom become a lost cause.
1228. 1987Ronald ReaganBack in July when I nominated Judge Bork, I thought the confirmation process would go forward with a calm and sensible exchange of views.
1229. 1987Ronald ReaganUnfortunately, the confirmation process became an ugly spectacle, marred by distortions and innuendos, and casting aside the normal rules of decency …
1230. 1987Ronald ReaganIf the campaign of distortion and disinformation used by opponents of this nominee is allowed to succeed, it will represent more than a temporary …
1231. 1987Ronald ReaganIt will permanently diminish the sum total of American democracy; it will call into question the idea of free, fair, and civil exchange; and it will …
1232. 1987Ronald ReaganToo many theorists believe that the courts should save the country from the Constitution.
1233. 1987Ronald ReaganThe principal errors in recent years have had nothing to do with the intent of the framers who finished their work 200 years ago last month.
1234. 1987Ronald ReaganThey've had to do with those who have looked upon the courts as their own special province to impose by judicial fiat what they could not accomplish …
1235. 1987Ronald ReaganThey've had to do with judges who too often have made law enforcement a game where clever lawyers try to find ways to trip up the police on the rules.
1236. 1987Ronald ReaganAt the local, State, and Federal levels, your voices have been heard.
1237. 1987Ronald ReaganAfter years of rising crime and leniency in the courtrooms, you demanded fair but tough law enforcement, enforcement that protected the innocent and …
1238. 1987Ronald ReaganAnd with your support, we've been able to turn things around in Washington.
1239. 1987Ronald ReaganWe organized a war against organized crime and a stepped-up effort against drug trafficking.
1240. 1987Ronald ReaganIt took us 3 years, but we finally got our crime bill through the Congress.
1241. 1987Ronald ReaganBut most of all, I kept a promise that I made to you when I ran for this office: that from my first day here in the White House that I would seek to …
1242. 1987Ronald ReaganWell, all of this meant hard work, but together we have turned the crime trend around.
1243. 1987Ronald ReaganThat's something to be proud of.
1244. 1987Ronald ReaganThat starts with the Supreme Court.
1245. 1987Ronald ReaganIt takes leadership from the Supreme Court to help shape the attitudes of the courts in our land and to make sure that principles of law are based on …
1246. 1987Ronald ReaganIn the next several days, your Senators will cast a vote on the Bork nomination.
1247. 1987Ronald ReaganThe purpose of the Senate debate is to allow all sides to be heard.
1248. 1989George H. W. BushBehind me stands one of the most visited places on Earth, a symbol of American courage and ingenuity.
1249. 1989George H. W. BushAnd before me stand those on whose shoulders this legacy was built: the men and women of the United States astronaut corps.
1250. 1989George H. W. BushNeil [Armstrong] and Buzz [Aldrin], who originated the moonwalk 15 years before Michael Jackson ever even thought of it.
1251. 1989George H. W. BushAnd Michael Collins, former director of this amazing museum and the brave pilot who flew alone on the dark side of the Moon while Neil and Buzz …
1252. 1989George H. W. BushMike, you must be the only American over age 10 that night who didn't get to see the Moon landing.
1253. 1989George H. W. BushAnd later this evening after the crowd disperses and the Sun goes down, a nearly full Moon will rise out of the darkness and shine down on an America …
1254. 1989George H. W. BushProject Apollo, the first men on the Moon -- some called it quixotic, impossible -- had never been done.
1255. 1989George H. W. BushBut America dreamed it, and America did it.
1256. 1989George H. W. BushAnd it began on July 16th, 1969. The Sun rose a second time that morning as the awesome fireball of the Saturn V lifted these three pioneers beyond …
1257. 1989George H. W. BushA crowd of one million, including half of the United States Congress, held its breath as the Earth shook beneath their feet and our view of the …
1258. 1989George H. W. BushThree days and three nights they journeyed. It was a perilous, unprecedented, breathtaking voyage.
1259. 1989George H. W. BushBarbara and our daughter, Dorothy, were with me in our red-brick house right here on the outskirts of Washington, where we moved up here to represent …
1260. 1989George H. W. BushOur 12-year-old kid, Marvin, was on a trip out West with family friends and remembers stopping at a roadside motel to watch. Second boy, Jeb, 16 that …
1261. 1989George H. W. BushThe landing itself was harrowing. Alarms flashed, and a computer overload threatened to halt the mission while Eagle dangled thousands of feet above …
1262. 1989George H. W. BushAnd only 20 seconds of fuel remained.
1263. 1989George H. W. BushWithin one lifetime, the human race had traveled from the dunes of Kitty Hawk to the dust of another world.
1264. 1989George H. W. BushWe had a challenge. We set a goal. And we achieved it.
1265. 1989George H. W. BushIn the building behind me are the testaments to Apollo and to what came before -- the chariots of fire flown by Armstrong, Yeager, Lindbergh, and the …
1266. 1989George H. W. BushAnd in the National Archives, across the great expanse of grass, are preserved the founding documents of the idea that made it all possible -- the …
1267. 1989George H. W. BushAnd there's little question that, in the 21st century, humans will again leave their home planet for voyages of discovery and exploration.
1268. 1989George H. W. BushFrom the voyages of Columbus to the Oregon Trail to the journey to the Moon itself: history proves that we have never lost by pressing the limits of …
1269. 1989George H. W. BushIn 1961 it took a crisis -- the space race -- to speed things up.
1270. 1989George H. W. BushEach mission should and will lay the groundwork for the next.
1271. 1989George H. W. BushAnd it continues just up the street there, to the United States Congress, where the future of the space station and our future as a spacefaring …
1272. 1989George H. W. BushTo this day, the only footprints on the Moon are American footprints. The only flag on the Moon is an American flag. And the know-how that …
1273. 1989George H. W. BushIt was the Earth -- tiny, fragile, precious, blue orb -- rising above the arid desert of Tranquility Base.
1274. 1989George H. W. BushThe space station is a first and necessary step for sustained manned exploration,
1275. 1989George H. W. BushBut it's only a first step.
1276. 1989George H. W. BushThe Space Council will report back to me as soon as possible with concrete recommendations to chart a new and continuing course to the Moon and Mars …
1277. 1989George H. W. BushThey have taken their place in the heavens so that America can take its place in the stars.
1278. 1989George H. W. BushLike them, and like Columbus, we dream of distant shores we've not yet seen.
1279. 1989George H. W. BushSix years ago, Pioneer 10 sailed beyond the orbits of Neptune and of Pluto -- the first manmade object to leave the solar system, its destination …
1280. 1989George H. W. BushIt's now journeyed through the tenures of five Presidents -- 4 billion miles from Earth.
1281. 1989George H. W. BushAnd it will not happen in my lifetime, and probably not during the lives of my children,
1282. 1990George H. W. BushAnd of course, if I get singling out all the Members who are here of Congress, I'll be here all day.
1283. 1990George H. W. BushThe Speaker and others, unfortunately, couldn't be here -- majority and minority leader. But we have many of the committee leaders that worked the …
1284. 1990George H. W. BushThis last weekend, I spent some pleasant hours up at Camp David.
1285. 1990George H. W. BushI first made a commitment to comprehensive clean air legislation when I was running for this job, and soon after coming into office, we developed a …
1286. 1990George H. W. BushI think we did have consultation in the best spirit with the Democratic leadership and with the Republican leadership in the Congress, with …
1287. 1990George H. W. BushIt will go after the three main types of air pollution: acid rain, smog, and toxic air pollutants.
1288. 1990George H. W. BushThis bill will cut emissions that cause acid rain in half and permanently cap them at these new levels.
1289. 1990George H. W. BushIt will reduce pollutants that cause smog in our cities by 40 percent, so that by the year 2000, over 100 major American cities with poor air quality …
1290. 1990George H. W. BushAnd it will cut dangerous air toxics emissions by over 75 percent, using new technologies.
1291. 1990George H. W. BushAnd by the next decade, its alternative fuel provisions will help reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
1292. 1990George H. W. BushThis bill means cleaner cars, cleaner power plants, cleaner factories, and cleaner fuels; and it means a cleaner America.
1293. 1990George H. W. BushVirtually every person in every city and every town will enjoy its benefits.
1294. 1990George H. W. BushThere were several members of my administration who saw to it, through thick and thin, that this bill got to my desk: Bill Reilly, the EPA …
1295. 1990George H. W. BushMany of you are with us today, and as I mentioned earlier, others couldn't be with us today. But it isn't because of lack of interest. Congress is …
1296. 1990George H. W. BushBut the list is too long to single out everybody from the Hill that worked on this.
1297. 1990George H. W. BushWe met with business leaders who saw stewardship to the environment as a key to long-term economic growth.
1298. 1990George H. W. BushAnd we met with academics and innovative problem-solvers from every side who have helped build the foundation for this approach.
1299. 1990George H. W. BushWe all had tough choices to make.
1300. 1990George H. W. BushBut despite our differences, we all agreed on the goal: clean air for all Americans. We agreed on the means: a new Clean Air Act.
1301. 1990George H. W. BushAnd we all agreed it was time to take a new approach.
1302. 1990George H. W. BushThis bill is both ambitious in its goals and innovative in its methods.
1303. 1990George H. W. BushFor the first time, we've moved away from the redtape bureaucratic approach of the past.
1304. 1990George H. W. BushThe approach in this bill balances economic growth and environmental protection. The approach is comprehensive, cost-effective; and most of all, it …
1305. 1990George H. W. BushThe first major pollution reductions are where we need them most.
1306. 1990George H. W. BushIt offers incentives, choice, and flexibility for industry to find the best solutions, all in the context of continued economic growth.
1307. 1990George H. W. BushThe bill is balanced: It will stimulate the use of natural gas from the wells of Texas and Louisiana; and fuels made from the farms of Iowa, …
1308. 1990George H. W. BushThis bill can make America the global leader in developing a new generation of environmental technologies to which the world is now turning.
1309. 1990George H. W. BushAmerican heritage is precious.
1310. 1990George H. W. BushThis legislation is not only in America's interest; like so many of the environmental issues that we are working on, this bill is in the interest of …
1311. 1990George H. W. BushAnd the new environmental ethos is growing.
1312. 1990George H. W. BushWe see it in community efforts and in school involvement across America, and we're seeing it in the innovative response of private industry -- in …
1313. 1990George H. W. BushWe have succeeded today because of a common sense of global stewardship, a sense that it is the Earth that endures and that all of us are simply …
1314. 1991George H. W. BushJust 2 hours ago, allied air forces began an attack on military targets in Iraq and Kuwait.
1315. 1991George H. W. BushThese attacks continue as I speak.
1316. 1991George H. W. BushGround forces are not engaged.
1317. 1991George H. W. BushThis conflict started August 2d when the dictator of Iraq invaded a small and helpless neighbor.
1318. 1991George H. W. BushKuwait -- a member of the Arab League and a member of the United Nations -- was crushed; its people, brutalized.
1319. 1991George H. W. BushFive months ago, Saddam Hussein started this cruel war against Kuwait.
1320. 1991George H. W. BushThis military action, taken in accord with United Nations resolutions and with the consent of the United States Congress, follows months of constant …
1321. 1991George H. W. BushArab leaders sought what became known as an Arab solution, only to conclude that Saddam Hussein was unwilling to leave Kuwait.
1322. 1991George H. W. BushOthers traveled to Baghdad in a variety of efforts to restore peace and justice.
1323. 1991George H. W. BushOur Secretary of State, James Baker, held an historic meeting in Geneva, only to be totally rebuffed.
1324. 1991George H. W. BushThis past weekend, in a last-ditch effort, the Secretary-General of the United Nations went to the Middle East with peace in his heart -- his second …
1325. 1991George H. W. BushAnd he came back from Baghdad with no progress at all in getting Saddam Hussein to withdraw from Kuwait.
1326. 1991George H. W. BushNow the 28 countries with forces in the Gulf area have exhausted all reasonable efforts to reach a peaceful resolution
1327. 1991George H. W. BushAs I report to you, air attacks are underway against military targets in Iraq.
1328. 1991George H. W. BushOur operations are designed to best protect the lives of all the coalition forces by targeting Saddam's vast military arsenal.
1329. 1991George H. W. BushIraq will eventually comply with all relevant United Nations resolutions, and then, when peace is restored, it is our hope that Iraq will live as a …
1330. 1991George H. W. BushThe answer is clear: The world could wait no longer.
1331. 1991George H. W. BushSanctions, though having some effect, showed no signs of accomplishing their objective.
1332. 1991George H. W. BushSaddam Hussein systematically raped, pillaged, and plundered a tiny nation, no threat to his own.
1333. 1991George H. W. BushHe subjected the people of Kuwait to unspeakable atrocities -- and among those maimed and murdered, innocent children.
1334. 1991George H. W. BushWhile the world waited, Saddam sought to add to the chemical weapons arsenal he now possesses, an infinitely more dangerous weapon of mass …
1335. 1991George H. W. BushAnd while the world waited, while the world talked peace and withdrawal, Saddam Hussein dug in and moved massive forces into Kuwait.
1336. 1991George H. W. BushWhile the world waited, while Saddam stalled, more damage was being done to the fragile economies of the Third World, emerging democracies of Eastern …
1337. 1991George H. W. BushThe United States, together with the United Nations, exhausted every means at our disposal to bring this crisis to a peaceful end.
1338. 1991George H. W. BushHowever, Saddam clearly felt that by stalling and threatening and defying the United Nations, he could weaken the forces arrayed against him.
1339. 1991George H. W. BushWhile the world waited, Saddam Hussein met every overture of peace with open contempt.
1340. 1991George H. W. BushWhile the world prayed for peace, Saddam prepared for war.
1341. 1991George H. W. BushI had hoped that when the United States Congress, in historic debate, took its resolute action, Saddam would realize he could not prevail and would …
1342. 1991George H. W. BushHe did not do that.
1343. 1991George H. W. BushInstead, he remained intransigent, certain that time was on his side.
1344. 1991George H. W. BushSaddam has arrogantly rejected all warnings.
1345. 1991George H. W. BushInstead, he tried to make this a dispute between Iraq and the United States of America.
1346. 1991George H. W. BushWell, he failed.
1347. 1991George H. W. BushTonight, 28 nations -- countries from 5 continents, Europe and Asia, Africa, and the Arab League -- have forces in the Gulf area standing shoulder to …
1348. 1991George H. W. BushThese countries had hoped the use of force could be avoided.
1349. 1991George H. W. BushRegrettably, we now believe that only force will make him leave.
1350. 1991George H. W. BushWe have in this past year made great progress in ending the long era of conflict and cold war.
1351. 1991George H. W. BushWhen we are successful -- and we will be -- we have a real chance at this new world order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its …
1352. 1991George H. W. BushWe have no argument with the people of Iraq.
1353. 1991George H. W. BushThose well-known words are so very true today.
1354. 1991George H. W. BushNo President can easily commit our sons and daughters to war.
1355. 1991George H. W. BushThey are the Nation's finest. Ours is an all-volunteer force, magnificently trained, highly motivated. The troops know why they're there.
1356. 1991George H. W. BushAnd he's right.
1357. 1991George H. W. BushThe terrible crimes and tortures committed by Saddam's henchmen against the innocent people of Kuwait are an affront to mankind and a challenge to …
1358. 1993Bill ClintonWhen our Founders boldly declared America's independence to the world and our purposes to the Almighty, they knew that America, to endure, would have …
1359. 1993Bill ClintonThough we marched to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.
1360. 1993Bill ClintonToday, a generation raised in the shadows of the cold war assumes new responsibilities in a world warmed by the sunshine of freedom but threatened …
1361. 1993Bill ClintonRaised in unrivaled prosperity, we inherit an economy that is still the world's strongest but is weakened by business failures, stagnant wages, …
1362. 1993Bill ClintonWhen George Washington first took the oath I have just sworn to uphold, news traveled slowly across the land by horseback and across the ocean by …
1363. 1993Bill ClintonNow, the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast instantaneously to billions around the world.
1364. 1993Bill ClintonCommunications and commerce are global. Investment is mobile. Technology is almost magical. And ambition for a better life is now universal.
1365. 1993Bill ClintonWe earn our livelihood in America today in peaceful competition with people all across the Earth. Profound and powerful forces are shaking and …
1366. 1993Bill ClintonThis new world has already enriched the lives of millions of Americans who are able to compete and win in it.
1367. 1993Bill ClintonBut when most people are working harder for less; when others cannot work at all; when the cost of health care devastates families and threatens to …
1368. 1993Bill ClintonWe know we have to face hard truths and take strong steps, but we have not done so; instead, we have drifted. And that drifting has eroded our …
1369. 1993Bill ClintonThough our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a restless, questing, hopeful people.
1370. 1993Bill ClintonFrom our Revolution to the Civil War, to the Great Depression, to the civil rights movement, our people have always mustered the determination to …
1371. 1993Bill ClintonThere is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
1372. 1993Bill ClintonIt will not be easy. It will require sacrifice, but it can be done and done fairly, not choosing sacrifice for its own sake but for our own sake.
1373. 1993Bill ClintonOur Founders saw themselves in the light of posterity.
1374. 1993Bill ClintonAnyone who has ever watched a child's eyes wander into sleep knows what posterity is.
1375. 1993Bill ClintonThis beautiful Capital, like every capital since the dawn of civilization, is often a place of intrigue and calculation.
1376. 1993Bill ClintonPowerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is in and who is out, who is up and who is down, forgetting those people whose …
1377. 1993Bill ClintonAmericans deserve better.
1378. 1993Bill ClintonAnd in this city today there are people who want to do better.
1379. 1993Bill ClintonThe world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.
1380. 1993Bill ClintonToday, as an older order passes, the new world is more free but less stable. Communism's collapse has called forth old animosities and new dangers.
1381. 1993Bill ClintonThe brave Americans serving our Nation today in the Persian Gulf, in Somalia, and wherever else they stand are testament to our resolve.
1382. 1993Bill ClintonBut our greatest strength is the power of our ideas, which are still new in many lands.
1383. 1993Bill ClintonAcross the world we see them embraced,
1384. 1993Bill ClintonThe American people have summoned the change we celebrate today. You have raised your voices in an unmistakable chorus.
1385. 1993Bill ClintonAnd you have changed the face of Congress, the Presidency, and the political process itself.
1386. 1993Bill ClintonBut no President, no Congress, no Government can undertake this mission alone.
1387. 1993Bill ClintonThere is so much to be done; enough, indeed, for millions of others who are still young in spirit to give of themselves in service, too.
1388. 1993Bill ClintonIn serving, we recognize a simple but powerful truth: We need each other,
1389. 1993Bill ClintonFrom this joyful mountaintop of celebration we hear a call to service in the valley.
1390. 1993Bill ClintonWe have heard the trumpets. We have changed the guard.
1391. 1994Bill ClintonMr. Dawson, you did your men proud today.
1392. 1994Bill ClintonIn these last days of ceremonies, we have heard wonderful words of tribute.
1393. 1994Bill ClintonToday, the beaches of Normandy are calm.
1394. 1994Bill ClintonIf you walk these shores on a summer's day, all you might hear is the laughter of children playing on the sand or the cry of seagulls overhead or …
1395. 1994Bill ClintonBut June 6th, 1944, was the least ordinary day of the 20th century.
1396. 1994Bill ClintonOn that chilled dawn, these beaches echoed with the sounds of staccato gunfire, the roar of aircraft, the thunder of bombardment.
1397. 1994Bill ClintonAnd through the wind and the waves came the soldiers, out of their landing craft and into the water, away from their youth and toward a savage place …
1398. 1994Bill ClintonThey had come to free a continent, the Americans, the British, the Canadians, the Poles, the French Resistance, the Norwegians, and others; they had …
1399. 1994Bill ClintonAs news of the invasion broke back home in America, people held their breath.
1400. 1994Bill ClintonIn Boston, commuters stood reading the news on the electric sign at South Station. In New York, the Statue of Liberty, its torch blacked out since …
1401. 1994Bill ClintonBelow us are the beaches where Corporal Elliot's battalion and so many other Americans landed, Omaha and Utah, proud names from America's heartland, …
1402. 1994Bill ClintonDuring those first hours on bloody Omaha, nothing seemed to go right.
1403. 1994Bill ClintonLanding craft were ripped apart by mines and shells. Tanks sent to protect them had sunk, drowning their crews. Enemy fire raked the invaders as they …
1404. 1994Bill ClintonAnd as the stunned survivors of the first wave huddled behind a seawall, it seemed the invasion might fail.
1405. 1994Bill ClintonHitler and his followers had bet on it.
1406. 1994Bill ClintonThey were sure the Allied soldiers were soft, weakened by liberty and leisure, by the mingling of races and religion. They were sure their …
1407. 1994Bill ClintonAlthough many of the American troops found themselves without officers on unfamiliar ground, next to soldiers they didn't know, one by one they got …
1408. 1994Bill ClintonThey inched forward, and together, in groups of threes and fives and tens, the sons of democracy improvised and mounted their own attacks.
1409. 1994Bill ClintonAt that exact moment on these beaches, the forces of freedom turned the tide of the 20th century.
1410. 1994Bill ClintonThese soldiers knew that staying put meant certain death.
1411. 1994Bill ClintonAnd as Captain Joe Dawson led his company up this bluff, and as others followed his lead, they secured a foothold for freedom.
1412. 1994Bill ClintonToday many of them are here among us.
1413. 1994Bill ClintonOh, they may walk with a little less spring in their step, and their ranks are growing thinner.
1414. 1994Bill Clintonwhen they were young, these men saved the world.
1415. 1994Bill ClintonWell, millions of our GI's did return home from that war to build up our nations and enjoy life's sweet pleasures.
1416. 1994Bill ClintonBut on this field there are 9,386 who did not: 33 pairs of brothers, a father and his son, 11 men from tiny Bedford, Virginia, and Corporal Frank …
1417. 1994Bill ClintonThey gave us our world.
1418. 1994Bill ClintonFifty years later, what a different world we live in.
1419. 1994Bill ClintonGermany, Japan, and Italy, liberated by our victory, now stand among our closest allies and the staunchest defenders of freedom.
1420. 1994Bill ClintonRussia, decimated during the war and frozen afterward in communism and cold war, has been reborn in democracy.
1421. 1994Bill ClintonWe cannot stay safe by doing so.
1422. 1994Bill ClintonThey struggled in war so that we might strive in peace.
1423. 1994Bill ClintonWe know that progress is not inevitable.
1424. 1994Bill ClintonBut neither was victory upon these beaches.
1425. 1994Bill ClintonNow, as then, the inner voice tells us to stand up and move forward.
1426. 1994Bill ClintonFifty years ago, the first Allied soldiers to land here in Normandy came not from the sea but from the sky.
1427. 1994Bill ClintonThey were called Pathfinders, the first paratroopers to make the jump.
1428. 1994Bill ClintonDeep in the darkness, they descended upon these fields to light beacons for the airborne assaults that would soon follow.
1429. 1999Bill Clintontoday our Armed Forces joined our NATO Allies in airstrikes against Serbian forces responsible for the brutality in Kosovo.
1430. 1999Bill ClintonWe act to protect thousands of innocent people in Kosovo from a mounting military offensive.
1431. 1999Bill ClintonWe act to prevent a wider war, to defuse a powder keg at the heart of Europe that has exploded twice before in this century with catastrophic results.
1432. 1999Bill ClintonAnd we act to stand united with our allies for peace.
1433. 1999Bill ClintonKosovo is a province of Serbia, in the middle of southeastern Europe, about 160 miles east of Italy. That's less than the distance between Washington …
1434. 1999Bill ClintonIts people are mostly ethnic Albanian and mostly Muslim.
1435. 1999Bill ClintonIn 1989 Serbia's leader, Slobodan Milosevic, the same leader who started the wars in Bosnia and Croatia and moved against Slovenia in the last …
1436. 1999Bill ClintonFor years, Kosovars struggled peacefully to get their rights back.
1437. 1999Bill ClintonLast fall our diplomacy, backed by the threat of force from our NATO Alliance, stopped the fighting for a while and rescued tens of thousands of …
1438. 1999Bill ClintonAnd last month, with our allies and Russia, we proposed a peace agreement to end the fighting for good.
1439. 1999Bill ClintonThe Kosovar leaders signed that agreement last week.
1440. 1999Bill ClintonEven though it does not give them all they want, even though their people were still being savaged, they saw that a just peace is better than a long …
1441. 1999Bill ClintonThe Serbian leaders, on the other hand, refused even to discuss key elements of the peace agreement.
1442. 1999Bill ClintonAs the Kosovars were saying yes to peace, Serbia stationed 40,000 troops in and around Kosovo in preparation for a major offensive—and in clear …
1443. 1999Bill ClintonNow they've started moving from village to village, shelling civilians and torching their houses.
1444. 1999Bill ClintonWe've seen innocent people taken from their homes, forced to kneel in the dirt, and sprayed with bullets; Kosovar men dragged from their families, …
1445. 1999Bill ClintonIt is also important to America's national interest.
1446. 1999Bill ClintonKosovo is a small place, but it sits on a major fault line between Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, at the meeting place of Islam and both the …
1447. 1999Bill ClintonTo the south are our allies Greece and Turkey; to the north, our new democratic allies in central Europe.
1448. 1999Bill ClintonAnd all around Kosovo, there are other small countries struggling with their own economic and political challenges, countries that could be …
1449. 1999Bill ClintonAll the ingredients for a major war are there: ancient grievances; struggling democracies; and in the center of it all, a dictator in Serbia who has …
1450. 1999Bill ClintonSarajevo, the capital of neighboring Bosnia, is where World War I began. World War II and the Holocaust engulfed this region.
1451. 1999Bill ClintonIn both wars, Europe was slow to recognize the dangers, and the United States waited even longer to enter the conflicts.
1452. 1999Bill ClintonWe learned some of the same lessons in Bosnia just a few years ago. The world did not act early enough to stop that war, either.
1453. 1999Bill ClintonTwo million Bosnians became refugees.
1454. 1999Bill ClintonAt the time, many people believed nothing could be done to end the bloodshed in Bosnia.
1455. 1999Bill ClintonBut when we and our allies joined with courageous Bosnians to stand up to the aggressors, we helped to end the war.
1456. 1999Bill ClintonOver the last few months we have done everything we possibly could to solve this problem peacefully.
1457. 1999Bill ClintonSecretary Albright has worked tirelessly for a negotiated agreement. Mr. Milosevic has refused.
1458. 1999Bill ClintonAgain, he refused.
1459. 1999Bill ClintonToday we and our 18 NATO Allies agreed to do what we said we would do, what we must do to restore the peace.
1460. 1999Bill ClintonNow, I want to be clear with you, there are risks in this military action, risks to our pilots and the people on the ground.
1461. 1999Bill ClintonSerbia's air defenses are strong.
1462. 1999Bill ClintonIt could decide to intensify its assault on Kosovo or to seek to harm us or our allies elsewhere.
1463. 1999Bill ClintonHopefully, Mr. Milosevic will realize his present course is self-destructive and unsustainable.
1464. 1999Bill ClintonIf NATO is invited to do so, our troops should take part in that mission to keep the peace.
1465. 1999Bill ClintonI've thought long and hard about that question.
1466. 1999Bill ClintonI am convinced that the dangers of acting are far outweighed by the dangers of not acting—dangers to defenseless people and to our national interests.
1467. 1999Bill ClintonIf we and our allies were to allow this war to continue with no response, President Milosevic would read our hesitation as a license to kill.
1468. 1999Bill ClintonThere would be many more massacres, tens of thousands more refugees, more victims crying out for revenge.
1469. 1999Bill ClintonRight now our firmness is the only hope the people of Kosovo have to be able to live in their own country without having to fear for their own lives.
1470. 1999Bill ClintonThat would discredit NATO, the cornerstone on which our security has rested for 50 years now.
1471. 1999Bill ClintonThe red dots are towns the Serbs have attacked. The arrows show the movement of refugees north, east, and south.
1472. 1999Bill ClintonAlready, this movement is threatening the young democracy in Macedonia, which has its own Albanian minority and a Turkish minority.
1473. 1999Bill ClintonAlready, Serbian forces have made forays into Albania from which Kosovars have drawn support.
1474. 1999Bill ClintonAlbania has a Greek minority.
1475. 1999Bill ClintonLet a fire burn here in this area, and the flames will spread.
1476. 1999Bill ClintonEventually, key U.S. allies could be drawn into a wider conflict, a war we would be forced to confront later, only at far greater risk and greater …
1477. 1999Bill ClintonAmerica has a responsibility to stand with our allies when they are trying to save innocent lives and preserve peace, freedom, and stability in …
1478. 1999Bill ClintonThat is what we are doing in Kosovo.
1479. 1999Bill ClintonIf we've learned anything from the century drawing to a close, it is that if America is going to be prosperous and secure, we need a Europe that is …
1480. 1999Bill ClintonWe need a Europe that is coming together, not falling apart, a Europe that shares our values and shares the burdens of leadership.
1481. 1999Bill ClintonThat is the foundation on which the security of our children will depend.
1482. 1999Bill ClintonThat is why I have supported the political and economic unification of Europe.
1483. 1999Bill ClintonThat is why we brought Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic into NATO, and redefined its missions, and reached out to Russia and Ukraine for new …
1484. 1999Bill ClintonThe challenge of strengthening a partnership with a democratic Russia that, despite our disagreements, is a constructive partner in the work of …
1485. 1999Bill ClintonIt is this challenge that we and our allies are facing in Kosovo.
1486. 1999Bill ClintonThat is why we have acted now: because we care about saving innocent lives; because we have an interest in avoiding an even crueler and costlier war; …
1487. 2000Bill ClintonNearly two centuries ago, in this room, on this floor, Thomas Jefferson and a trusted aide spread out a magnificent map, a map Jefferson had long …
1488. 2000Bill ClintonThe aide was Meriwether Lewis, and the map was the product of his courageous expedition across the American frontier, all the way to the Pacific.
1489. 2000Bill ClintonThe moment we are here to witness was brought about through brilliant and painstaking work of scientists all over the world, including many men and …
1490. 2000Bill ClintonIt was not even 50 years ago that a young Englishman named Crick and a brash, even younger American named Watson first discovered the elegant …
1491. 2000Bill ClintonDr. Watson, the way you announced your discovery in the journal "Nature" was one of the great understatements of all time:
1492. 2000Bill ClintonIn the intervening years, we have pooled the combined wisdom of biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, mathematics, and computer science; tapped …
1493. 2000Bill ClintonMore than 1,000 researchers across 6 nations have revealed nearly all 3 billion letters of our miraculous genetic code.
1494. 2000Bill ClintonWith this profound new knowledge, humankind is on the verge of gaining immense new power to heal.
1495. 2000Bill ClintonGenome science will have a real impact on all our lives and even more on the lives of our children.
1496. 2000Bill ClintonIt will revolutionize the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of most, if not all, human diseases.
1497. 2000Bill ClintonIn coming years, doctors increasingly will be able to cure diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes, and cancer by attacking their genetic …
1498. 2000Bill ClintonJust to offer one example, patients with some forms of leukemia and breast cancer already are being treated in clinical trials with sophisticated new …
1499. 2000Bill ClintonIn fact, it is now conceivable that our children's children will know the term "cancer" only as a constellation of stars.
1500. 2000Bill ClintonThere is much hard work yet to be done.
1501. 2000Bill ClintonAnd after publication, both sets of teams will join together for an historic sequence analysis conference.
1502. 2000Bill ClintonTogether, they will examine what scientific insights have been gleaned from both efforts and how we can most judiciously proceed toward the next …
1503. 2000Bill ClintonI want to emphasize that biotechnology companies are absolutely essential in this endeavor, for it is they who will bring to the market the …
1504. 2000Bill ClintonIt is the horizon that represents the ethical, moral, and spiritual dimension of the power we now possess.
1505. 2000Bill ClintonAll of us are created equal, entitled to equal treatment under the law.
1506. 2000Bill ClintonAfter all, I believe one of the great truths to emerge from this triumphant expedition inside the human genome is that in genetic terms, all human …
1507. 2000Bill ClintonThe most important fact of life on this Earth is our common humanity.
1508. 2000Bill ClintonWith the generous support of the Wellcome Trust, British scientists have played an invaluable role in reaching this milestone.
1509. 2000Bill ClintonAnd on a personal note, I can't help but think that the year of your son's birth will always be remembered for the remarkable achievements we …
1510. 2000Bill ClintonI think his life expectancy has just gone up by about 25 years.
1511. 2000Bill ClintonI think everybody genuinely is concerned about the issues you raised, the privacy issues, and the whole general set of ethical, social, and legal …
1512. 2000Bill ClintonAnd it strikes me that our scientists—the British and the American scientists, our French, German, Chinese counterparts who worked on this—were …
1513. 2000Bill ClintonThere are different legal systems, different social mores, but I think that it would be a very good thing if the U.S, the U.K., and anybody else that …
1514. 2000Bill ClintonWe may have differences from country to country, but I think that if we work together, we'll give a higher sense of urgency to the project, and we'll …
1515. 2000Bill ClintonFrom his development of some of the central methods for finding human disease genes to his successful application of those methods to the discovery …
1516. 2000Bill ClintonHe is a physician-scientist of great faith, compassion, energy, and integrity.
1517. 2000Bill ClintonAnd he has truly helped us more than anyone else to understand how the marvels of genome science will actually improve human health.
1518. 2000Bill ClintonWhen we get this all worked out and we're all living to be 150—[laughter]—young people will still fall in love; old people will still fight about …
1519. 2001George W. BushIt is a story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old, the story of a slaveholding society that became a servant of freedom, the …
1520. 2001George W. BushIt is the American story, a story of flawed and fallible people united across the generations by grand and enduring ideals.
1521. 2001George W. BushThrough much of the last century, America's faith in freedom and democracy was a rock in a raging sea. Now it is a seed upon the wind, taking root in …
1522. 2001George W. BushOur democratic faith is more than the creed of our country. It is the inborn hope of our humanity, an ideal we carry but do not own, a trust we bear …
1523. 2001George W. BushEven after nearly 225 years, we have a long way yet to travel.
1524. 2001George W. BushWhile many of our citizens prosper, others doubt the promise, even the justice of our own country.
1525. 2001George W. BushThe ambitions of some Americans are limited by failing schools and hidden prejudice and the circumstances of their birth.
1526. 2001George W. BushAnd sometimes our differences run so deep, it seems we share a continent but not a country.
1527. 2001George W. BushOur unity, our Union, is a serious work of leaders and citizens and every generation.
1528. 2001George W. BushI know this is in our reach because we are guided by a power larger than ourselves, who creates us equal, in His image, and we are confident in …
1529. 2001George W. BushAmerica has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests, and …
1530. 2001George W. BushAnd every immigrant, by embracing these ideals, makes our country more, not less, American.
1531. 2001George W. BushAmerica at its best matches a commitment to principle with a concern for civility.
1532. 2001George W. BushBut the stakes for America are never small.
1533. 2001George W. BushIf our country does not lead the cause of freedom, it will not be led. If we do not turn the hearts of children toward knowledge and character, we …
1534. 2001George W. BushAnd this commitment, if we keep it, is a way to shared accomplishment.
1535. 2001George W. BushAmerica at its best is also courageous. Our national courage has been clear in times of depression and war, when defeating common dangers defined our …
1536. 2001George W. BushAmerica at its best is compassionate.
1537. 2001George W. BushIn the quiet of American conscience, we know that deep, persistent poverty is unworthy of our Nation's promise.
1538. 2001George W. BushAnd the proliferation of prisons, however necessary, is no substitute for hope and order in our souls.
1539. 2001George W. BushAnd all of us are diminished when any are hopeless.
1540. 2001George W. BushGovernment has great responsibilities for public safety and public health, for civil rights and common schools.
1541. 2001George W. BushYet, compassion is the work of a nation, not just a government.
1542. 2001George W. BushAnd some needs and hurts are so deep they will only respond to a mentor's touch or a pastor's prayer.
1543. 2001George W. BushChurch and charity, synagogue and mosque lend our communities their humanity,
1544. 2001George W. BushMany in our country do not know the pain of poverty. But we can listen to those who do.
1545. 2001George W. BushAmerica at its best is a place where personal responsibility is valued and expected.
1546. 2001George W. BushAnd though it requires sacrifice, it brings a deeper fulfillment.
1547. 2001George W. BushWe find the fullness of life not only in options but in commitments. And we find that children and community are the commitments that set us free.
1548. 2001George W. BushOur public interest depends on private character, on civic duty and family bonds and basic fairness, on uncounted, unhonored acts of decency, which …
1549. 2001George W. BushSometimes in life we're called to do great things.
1550. 2001George W. BushThe most important tasks of a democracy are done by everyone.
1551. 2001George W. BushWhat you do is as important as anything Government does.
1552. 2001George W. BushAmericans are generous and strong and decent, not because we believe in ourselves but because we hold beliefs beyond ourselves.
1553. 2001George W. BushWhen this spirit of citizenship is missing, no Government program can replace it. When this spirit is present, no wrong can stand against it.
1554. 2001George W. BushMuch time has passed since Jefferson arrived for his inauguration.
1555. 2001George W. BushThe years and changes accumulate, but the themes of this day, he would know: our Nation's grand story of courage and its simple dream of dignity.
1556. 2001George W. BushWe are not this story's author, who fills time and eternity with his purpose.
1557. 2001George W. BushYet, his purpose is achieved in our duty. And our duty is fulfilled in service to one another.
1558. 2001George W. BushThis work continues, the story goes on, and an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.
1559. 2001George W. BushThe issue of research involving stem cells derived from human embryos is increasingly the subject of a national debate and dinner table discussions. …
1560. 2001George W. BushA large number of these embryos already exist. They are the product of a process called in vitro fertilization, which helps so many couples conceive …
1561. 2001George W. BushSome will not survive during long storage; others are destroyed.
1562. 2001George W. BushA number have been donated to science and used to create privately funded stem cell lines.
1563. 2001George W. BushAnd a few have been implanted in an adoptive mother and born and are today healthy children.
1564. 2001George W. BushYou should also know that stem cells can be derived from sources other than embryos: from adult cells, from umbilical cords that are discarded after …
1565. 2001George W. BushMany patients suffering from a range of diseases are already being helped with treatments developed from adult stem cells.
1566. 2001George W. BushFederal dollars help attract the best and brightest scientists. They ensure new discoveries are widely shared at the largest number of research …
1567. 2001George W. BushThe United States has a long and proud record of leading the world toward advances in science and medicine that improve human life. And the United …
1568. 2001George W. BushResearch on embryonic stem cells raises profound ethical questions, because extracting the stem cell destroys the embryo and thus destroys its …
1569. 2001George W. BushI've asked those questions and others of scientists, scholars, bioethicists, religious leaders, doctors, researchers, Members of Congress, my …
1570. 2001George W. BushAnd I have found widespread disagreement.
1571. 2001George W. BushAnd to the other crucial question, if these are going to be destroyed anyway, why not use them for good purpose, I also found different answers.
1572. 2001George W. BushAs the discoveries of modern science create tremendous hope, they also lay vast ethical minefields. As the genius of science extends the horizons of …
1573. 2001George W. BushWe have arrived at that brave new world that seemed so distant in 1932, when Aldous Huxley wrote about human beings created in test tubes in what he …
1574. 2001George W. BushIn recent weeks, we learned that scientists have created human embryos in test tubes solely to experiment on them.
1575. 2001George W. BushThis is deeply troubling
1576. 2001George W. BushScientists have already cloned a sheep.
1577. 2001George W. Bushas do most Americans.
1578. 2001George W. BushResearch offers hope that millions of our loved ones may be cured of a disease and rid of their suffering.
1579. 2001George W. BushI have friends whose children suffer from juvenile diabetes.
1580. 2001George W. BushMy own family has confronted the tragedy of childhood leukemia.
1581. 2001George W. BushAnd like all Americans, I have great hope for cures.
1582. 2001George W. BushAnd while we're all hopeful about the potential of this research, no one can be certain that the science will live up to the hope it has generated.
1583. 2001George W. Bushyet the progress to date has not lived up to its initial expectations.
1584. 2001George W. BushEmbryonic stem cell research offers both great promise and great peril.
1585. 2001George W. BushAs a result of private research, more than 60 genetically diverse stem cell lines already exist.
1586. 2001George W. BushThey were created from embryos that have already been destroyed, and they have the ability to regenerate themselves indefinitely, creating ongoing …
1587. 2001George W. BushThis allows us to explore the promise and potential of stem cell research without crossing a fundamental moral line by providing taxpayer funding …
1588. 2001George W. BushI also believe that great scientific progress can be made through aggressive Federal funding of research on umbilical cord, placenta, adult, and …
1589. 2001George W. BushThis council will consist of leading scientists, doctors, ethicists, lawyers, theologians, and others and will be chaired by Dr. Leon Kass, a leading …
1590. 2001George W. BushI have made this decision with great care,
1591. 2001Bill ClintonThis has been a time of dramatic transformation, and you have risen to every new challenge.
1592. 2001Bill ClintonYou have made our social fabric stronger, our families healthier and safer, our people more prosperous.
1593. 2001Bill ClintonIn all the work I have done as President— every decision I have made, every executive action I have taken, every bill I have proposed and signed—I've …
1594. 2001Bill ClintonI have steered my course by our enduring values: opportunity for all, responsibility from all, a community of all Americans.
1595. 2001Bill ClintonI have sought to give America a new kind of Government, smaller, more modern, more effective, full of ideas and policies appropriate to this new …
1596. 2001Bill ClintonWorking together, America has done well.
1597. 2001Bill ClintonOur families and communities are stronger. Thirty-five million Americans have used the family leave law; 8 million have moved off welfare. Crime is …
1598. 2001Bill ClintonOur schools are better. Higher standards, greater accountability, and larger investments have brought higher test scores and higher graduation rates.
1599. 2001Bill ClintonMore than 3 million children have health insurance now, and more than 7 million Americans have been lifted out of poverty. Incomes are rising across …
1600. 2001Bill ClintonAmerica has been a force for peace and prosperity in every corner of the globe.
1601. 2001Bill ClintonThrough our last four budgets we've turned record deficits to record surpluses, and we've been able to pay down $600 billion of our national debt—on …
1602. 2001Bill ClintonStaying on that course will bring lower interest rates, greater prosperity, and the opportunity to meet our big challenges.
1603. 2001Bill ClintonIf we choose wisely, we can pay down the debt, deal with the retirement of the baby boomers, invest more in our future, and provide tax relief.
1604. 2001Bill ClintonAt this remarkable moment in history, more people live in freedom than ever before. Our alliances are stronger than ever.
1605. 2001Bill ClintonPeople all around the world look to America to be a force for peace and prosperity, freedom and security.
1606. 2001Bill ClintonThe global economy is giving more of our own people and billions around the world the chance to work and live and raise their families with dignity.
1607. 2001Bill ClintonBut the forces of integration that have created these good opportunities also make us more subject to global forces of destruction, to terrorism, …
1608. 2001Bill ClintonThe expansion of trade hasn't fully closed the gap between those of us who live on the cutting edge of the global economy and the billions around the …
1609. 2001Bill ClintonGlobal poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.
1610. 2001Bill ClintonIf the wars of the 20th century, especially the recent ones in Kosovo and Bosnia, have taught us anything, it is that we achieve our aims by …
1611. 2001Bill ClintonIn the years ahead, I will never hold a position higher or a covenant more sacred than that of President of the United States.
1612. 2004George W. BushThis agency and the dedicated professionals who serve it have always reflected the finest values of our country, daring, discipline, ingenuity, and …
1613. 2004George W. BushThe risktakers and visionaries of this agency have expanded human knowledge, have revolutionized our understanding of the universe, and produced …
1614. 2004George W. BushHe's doing an excellent job.
1615. 2004George W. BushI also know he is in space with his colleague, Alexander Kaleri, who happens to be a Russian cosmonaut.
1616. 2004George W. BushAnd we've got some veterans with us today.
1617. 2004George W. BushTom DeLay is here, leading a House delegation. Senator Nelson is here from the Senate.
1618. 2004George W. BushIt is a subject that's important to this administration. It's a subject that's mighty important to the country and to the world.
1619. 2004George W. BushTwo centuries ago, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark left St. Louis to explore the new lands acquired in the Louisiana Purchase. They made that …
1620. 2004George W. BushWe have undertaken space travel because the desire to explore and understand is part of our character.
1621. 2004George W. BushAnd that quest has brought tangible benefits that improve our lives in countless ways.
1622. 2004George W. BushThe exploration of space has led to advances in weather forecasting, in communications, in computing, search and rescue technology, robotics, and …
1623. 2004George W. BushOur current programs and vehicles for exploring space have brought us far, and they have served us well.
1624. 2004George W. BushThe space shuttle has flown more than a hundred missions. It has been used to conduct important research and to increase the sum of human knowledge. …
1625. 2004George W. BushTelescopes, including those in space, have revealed more than 100 planets in the last decade alone. Probes have shown us stunning images of the rings …
1626. 2004George W. BushAt this very hour, the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is searching for evidence of life beyond the Earth.
1627. 2004George W. BushYet for all these successes, much remains for us to explore and to learn.
1628. 2004George W. BushIn the past 30 years, no human being has set foot on another world or ventured farther upward into space than 386 miles, roughly the distance from …
1629. 2004George W. BushAmerica has not developed a new vehicle to advance human exploration in space in nearly a quarter-century.
1630. 2004George W. BushThe environment of space is hostile to human beings.
1631. 2004George W. BushRadiation and weightlessness pose dangers to human health, and we have much to learn about their long-term effects before human crews can venture …
1632. 2004George W. BushResearch onboard the station and here on Earth will help us better understand and overcome the obstacles that limit exploration.
1633. 2004George W. BushThis will be the first spacecraft of its kind since the Apollo Command Module.
1634. 2004George W. BushReturning to the moon is an important step for our space program.
1635. 2004George W. BushEstablishing an extended human presence on the moon could vastly reduce the costs of further space exploration, making possible ever more ambitious …
1636. 2004George W. BushLifting heavy spacecraft and fuel out of the Earth's gravity is expensive. Spacecraft assembled and provisioned on the moon could escape its far …
1637. 2004George W. BushAlso, the moon is home to abundant resources. Its soil contains raw materials that might be harvested and processed into rocket fuel or breathable …
1638. 2004George W. BushWe can use our time on the moon to develop and test new approaches and technologies and systems that will allow us to function in other, more …
1639. 2004George W. BushThe moon is a logical step toward further progress and achievement.
1640. 2004George W. BushWith the experience and knowledge gained on the moon, we will then be ready to take the next steps of space exploration, human missions to Mars and …
1641. 2004George W. BushProbes, landers, and other vehicles of this kind continue to prove their worth, sending spectacular images and vast amounts of data back to Earth.
1642. 2004George W. BushYet the human thirst for knowledge ultimately cannot be satisfied by even the most vivid pictures or the most detailed measurements.
1643. 2004George W. BushWe need to see and examine and touch for ourselves.
1644. 2004George W. BushAnd only human beings are capable of adapting to the inevitable uncertainties posed by space travel.
1645. 2004George W. BushAnd along this journey, we'll make many technological breakthroughs.
1646. 2004George W. BushWe don't know yet what those breakthroughs will be, but we can be certain they'll come and that our efforts will be repaid many times over.
1647. 2004George W. BushWe may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream.
1648. 2004George W. BushAnd the fascination generated by further exploration will inspire our young people to study math and science and engineering and create a new …
1649. 2004George W. BushThis will be a great and unifying mission for NASA, and we know that you'll achieve it.
1650. 2004George W. BushHe has tremendous experience in the Department of Defense and the aerospace industry.
1651. 2004George W. BushHe is going to begin this important work right away.
1652. 2004George W. BushAchieving these goals requires a long-term commitment.
1653. 2004George W. BushNASA's current 5-year budget is $86 billion.
1654. 2004George W. BushWe need some new resources, however.
1655. 2004George W. BushThis increase, along with refocusing of our space agency, is a solid beginning to meet the challenges and the goals that we set today.
1656. 2004George W. BushIt's only a beginning.
1657. 2004George W. BushWe begin this venture knowing that space travel brings great risks.
1658. 2004George W. BushThe loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia was less than one year ago.
1659. 2004George W. BushSince the beginning of our space program, America has lost 23 astronauts and one astronaut from an allied nation, men and women who believed in their …
1660. 2004George W. BushColumbia's crew did not turn away from the challenge,
1661. 2004George W. BushMankind is drawn to the heavens for the same reason we were once drawn into unknown lands and across the open sea.
1662. 2004George W. BushWe choose to explore space because doing so improves our lives and lifts our national spirit.
1663. 2008George W. BushOver the past few weeks, many Americans have felt anxiety about their finances and their future.
1664. 2008George W. BushWe've seen triple-digit swings in the stock market. Major financial institutions have teetered on the edge of collapse, and some have failed.
1665. 2008George W. BushAs uncertainty has grown, many banks have restricted lending. Credit markets have frozen, and families and businesses have found it harder to borrow …
1666. 2008George W. BushWe're in the midst of a serious financial crisis, and the Federal Government is responding with decisive action.
1667. 2008George W. BushWe boosted confidence in money market mutual funds and acted to prevent major investors from intentionally driving down stocks for their own personal …
1668. 2008George W. BushMost importantly, my administration is working with Congress to address the root cause behind much of the instability in our markets.
1669. 2008George W. BushFinancial assets related to home mortgages have lost value during the housing decline, and the banks holding these assets have restricted credit.
1670. 2008George W. BushAs a result, our entire economy is in danger.
1671. 2008George W. BushIt will help American consumers and businesses get credit to meet their daily needs and create jobs.
1672. 2008George W. BushAnd it will help send a signal to markets around the world that America's financial system is back on track.
1673. 2008George W. BushFor more than a decade, a massive amount of money flowed into the United States from investors abroad because our country is an attractive and secure …
1674. 2008George W. BushThese developments allowed more families to borrow money for cars and homes and college tuition, some for the first time. They allowed more …
1675. 2008George W. BushUnfortunately, there were also some serious negative consequences, particularly in the housing market.
1676. 2008George W. BushEasy credit combined with the faulty assumption that home values would continue to rise led to excesses and bad decisions.
1677. 2008George W. BushMany mortgage lenders approved loans for borrowers without carefully examining their ability to pay.
1678. 2008George W. BushMany borrowers took out loans larger than they could afford, assuming that they could sell or refinance their homes at a higher price later on.
1679. 2008George W. BushOptimism about housing values also led to a boom in home construction. Eventually, the number of new houses exceeded the number of people willing to …
1680. 2008George W. BushAnd with supply exceeding demand, housing prices fell, and this created a problem.
1681. 2008George W. BushBorrowers with adjustable rate mortgages who had been planning to sell or refinance their homes at a higher price were stuck with homes worth less …
1682. 2008George W. BushThese widespread defaults had effects far beyond the housing market.
1683. 2008George W. BushSee, in today's mortgage industry, home loans are often packaged together and converted into financial products called mortgage-backed securities.
1684. 2008George W. BushThese securities were sold to investors around the world. Many investors assumed these securities were trustworthy and asked few questions about …
1685. 2008George W. BushTwo of the leading purchasers of mortgage-backed securities were Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
1686. 2008George W. BushBecause these companies were chartered by Congress, many believed they were guaranteed by the Federal Government. This allowed them to borrow …
1687. 2008George W. BushWhen home values declined, borrowers defaulted on their mortgages, and investors holding mortgage-backed securities began to incur serious losses. …
1688. 2008George W. BushInvestments banks such as Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers found themselves saddled with large amounts of assets they could not sell.
1689. 2008George W. BushThey ran out of the money needed to meet their immediate obligations, and they faced imminent collapse. Other banks found themselves in severe …
1690. 2008George W. BushI believe companies that make bad decisions should be allowed to go out of business.
1691. 2008George W. BushUnder normal circumstances, I would have followed this course.
1692. 2008George W. BushThe market is not functioning properly. There's been a widespread loss of confidence, and major sectors of America's financial system are at risk of …
1693. 2008George W. BushMore banks could fail, including some in your community. The stock market would drop even more, which would reduce the value of your retirement …
1694. 2008George W. BushForeclosures would rise dramatically. And if you own a business or a farm, you would find it harder and more expensive to get credit. More businesses …
1695. 2008George W. BushAnd ultimately, our country could experience a long and painful recession.
1696. 2008George W. BushThere is a spirit of cooperation between Democrats and Republicans and between Congress and this administration.
1697. 2008George W. BushIn that spirit, I've invited Senators McCain and Obama to join congressional leaders of both parties at the White House tomorrow to help speed our …
1698. 2008George W. BushI know that an economic rescue package will present a tough vote for many Members of Congress.
1699. 2008George W. BushIt is difficult to pass a bill that commits so much of the taxpayers' hard-earned money.
1700. 2008George W. BushBut given the situation we are facing, not passing a bill now would cost these Americans much more later.
1701. 2008George W. BushAfter much discussion, there is now widespread agreement on the principles such a plan would include.
1702. 2008George W. BushIt would remove the risk posed by the troubled assets, including mortgage-backed securities, now clogging the financial system. This would free banks …
1703. 2008George W. BushFirst, the plan is big enough to solve a serious problem.
1704. 2008George W. BushUnder our proposal, the Federal Government would put up to $700 billion taxpayer dollars on the line to purchase troubled assets that are clogging …
1705. 2008George W. BushIn the short term, this will free up banks to resume the flow of credit to American families and businesses, and this will help our economy grow.
1706. 2008George W. BushSecond, as markets have lost confidence in mortgage-backed securities, their prices have dropped sharply.
1707. 2008George W. BushYet the value of many of these assets will likely be higher than their current price, because the vast majority of Americans will ultimately pay off …
1708. 2008George W. BushThe Government is the one institution with the patience and resources to buy these assets at their current low prices and hold them until markets …
1709. 2008George W. BushAnd when that happens, money will flow back to the Treasury as these assets are sold.
1710. 2008George W. BushAnd we expect that much, if not all, of the tax dollars we invest will be paid back.
1711. 2008George W. BushWell, the primary steps—purpose of the steps I have outlined tonight is to safeguard the financial security of American workers and families and …
1712. 2008George W. BushThe Federal Government also continues to enforce laws and regulations protecting your money.
1713. 2008George W. BushThe Treasury Department recently offered Government insurance for money market mutual funds.
1714. 2008George W. BushAnd through the FDIC, every savings account, checking account, and certificate of deposit is insured by the Federal Government for up to $100,000.
1715. 2008George W. BushThe FDIC has been in existence for 75 years, and no one has ever lost a penny on an insured deposit,
1716. 2008George W. BushOur 21st-century global economy remains regulated largely by outdated 20th-century laws.
1717. 2008George W. BushRecently, we've seen how one company can grow so large that its failure jeopardizes the entire financial system.
1718. 2008George W. BushFor example, the Federal Reserve would be authorized to take a closer look at the operations of companies across the financial spectrum and ensure …
1719. 2008George W. BushThere are other good ideas,
1720. 2008George W. BushIn the long run, Americans have good reason to be confident in our economic strength.
1721. 2008George W. BushIt has unleashed the talents and the productivity and entrepreneurial spirit of our citizens. It has made this country the best place in the world to …
1722. 2008George W. BushOur economy is facing a moment of great challenge. But we've overcome tough challenges before, and we will overcome this one.
1723. 2008George W. BushI know that Americans sometimes get discouraged by the tone in Washington and the seemingly endless partisan struggles.
1724. 2008George W. BushYet history has shown that in times of real trial, elected officials rise to the occasion.
1725. 2009George W. BushTonight, with a thankful heart, I have asked for a final opportunity to share some thoughts on the journey that we have traveled together and the …
1726. 2009George W. BushFive days from now, the world will witness the vitality of American democracy. In a tradition dating back to our founding, the Presidency will pass …
1727. 2009George W. BushStanding on the steps of the Capitol will be a man whose history reflects the enduring promise of our land.
1728. 2009George W. BushThat morning, terrorists took nearly 3,000 lives in the worst attack on America since Pearl Harbor.
1729. 2009George W. BushI remember standing in the rubble of the World Trade Center 3 days later, surrounded by rescuers who had been working around the clock. I remember …
1730. 2009George W. BushAs the years passed, most Americans were able to return to life much as it had been before 9/11.
1731. 2009George W. BushEvery morning, I received a briefing on the threats to our Nation.
1732. 2009George W. BushOver the past 7 years, a new Department of Homeland Security has been created. The military, the intelligence community, and the FBI have been …
1733. 2009George W. BushAnd with strong allies at our side, we have taken the fight to the terrorists and those who support them.
1734. 2009George W. BushAfghanistan has gone from a nation where the Taliban harbored Al Qaida and stoned women in the streets to a young democracy that is fighting terror …
1735. 2009George W. BushAmerica has gone more than 7 years without another terrorist attack on our soil.
1736. 2009George W. BushOur Nation is blessed to have citizens who volunteer to defend us in this time of danger.
1737. 2009George W. BushUnder one, a small band of fanatics demands total obedience to an oppressive ideology, condemns women to subservience, and marks unbelievers for …
1738. 2009George W. BushThis is the belief that gave birth to our Nation. And in the long run, advancing this belief is the only practical way to protect our citizens.
1739. 2009George W. BushWhen people live in freedom, they do not willingly choose leaders who pursue campaigns of terror. When people have hope in the future, they will not …
1740. 2009George W. BushSo around the world, America is promoting human liberty, human rights, and human dignity. We're standing with dissidents and young democracies, …
1741. 2009George W. BushAnd this great republic, born alone in liberty, is leading the world toward a new age when freedom belongs to all nations.
1742. 2009George W. BushFor 8 years, we've also strived to expand opportunity and hope here at home.
1743. 2009George W. BushAcross our country, students are rising to meet higher standards in public schools. A new Medicare prescription drug benefit is bringing peace of …
1744. 2009George W. BushWhen challenges to our prosperity emerged, we rose to meet them. Facing the prospect of a financial collapse, we took decisive measures to safeguard …
1745. 2009George W. BushThese are very tough times for hardworking families. But the toll would be far worse if we had not acted.
1746. 2009George W. BushAll Americans are in this together.
1747. 2009George W. BushAnd there are things I would do differently if given the chance.
1748. 2009George W. BushYet I've always acted with the best interests of our country in mind.
1749. 2009George W. BushWhile our Nation is safer than it was 7 years ago, the gravest threat to our people remains another terrorist attack. Our enemies are patient and …
1750. 2009George W. BushAmerica did nothing to seek or deserve this conflict.
1751. 2009George W. BushIn the face of threats from abroad, it can be tempting to seek comfort by turning inward.
1752. 2009George W. BushRetreating behind our borders would only invite danger. In the 21st century, security and prosperity at home depend on the expansion of liberty …
1753. 2009George W. BushIf America does not lead the cause of freedom, that cause will not be led.
1754. 2009George W. BushBut good and evil are present in this world, and between the two there can be no compromise.
1755. 2009George W. BushMurdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time, everywhere. Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right.
1756. 2009George W. BushAmerica is a young country, full of vitality, constantly growing and renewing itself. And even in the toughest times, we lift our eyes to the broad …
1757. 2009George W. BushI have confidence in the promise of America because I know the character of our people.
1758. 2009George W. BushThis is a nation that inspires immigrants to risk everything for the dream of freedom. This is a nation where citizens show calm in times of danger …
1759. 2009George W. BushAnd Laura and I have invited some of them to join us in the White House this evening.
1760. 2009George W. BushWe see America's character in Dr. Tony Recasner, a principal who opened a new charter school from the ruins of Hurricane Katrina.
1761. 2009George W. BushWe see it in Julio Medina, a former inmate who leads a faith-based program to help prisoners returning to society. We see it in Staff Sergeant Aubrey …
1762. 2009George W. BushWe see America's character in Bill Krissoff, a surgeon from California. His son Nathan, a marine, gave his life in Iraq.
1763. 2009George W. BushThis good man was 60 years old, 18 years above the age limit. But his petition for a waiver was granted, and for the past year he has trained in …
1764. 2009George W. BushLieutenant Commander Krissoff could not be here tonight because he will soon deploy to Iraq, where he will help save America's wounded warriors and …
1765. 2009George W. BushIn citizens like these, we see the best of our country, resilient and hopeful, caring and strong.
1766. 2009George W. BushWe have faced danger and trial, and there's more ahead. But with the courage of our people and confidence in our ideals, this great Nation will never …
1767. 2009George W. BushThere have been good days and tough days.
1768. 2010Barack ObamaIt is fitting that Congress passed this historic legislation this week.
1769. 2010Barack ObamaAnd while the Senate still has a last round of improvements to make on this historic legislation--and these are improvements I'm confident they will …
1770. 2010Barack ObamaIt will take 4 years to implement fully many of these reforms, because we need to implement them responsibly.
1771. 2010Barack ObamaBut a host of desperately needed reforms will take effect right away.
1772. 2010Barack ObamaThat happens this year.
1773. 2010Barack ObamaThis year, tens of thousands of uninsured Americans with preexisting conditions, the parents of children who have a preexisting condition, will …
1774. 2010Barack ObamaThat happens this year.
1775. 2010Barack ObamaThis year, insurance companies will no longer be able to drop people's coverage when they get sick or place--[applause]. They won't be able to place …
1776. 2010Barack ObamaThis year, all new insurance plans will be required to offer free preventive care. And this year, young adults will be able to stay on their parents' …
1777. 2010Barack ObamaThat happens this year.
1778. 2010Barack ObamaAnd this year, seniors who fall in the coverage gap known as the doughnut hole will start getting some help. They'll receive $250 to help pay for …
1779. 2010Barack ObamaAnd I want seniors to know, despite what some have said, these reforms will not cut your guaranteed benefits.
1780. 2010Barack ObamaIn fact, under this law, Americans on Medicare will receive free preventive care without copayments or deductibles.
1781. 2010Barack ObamaThat begins this year.
1782. 2010Barack ObamaOnce this reform is implemented, health insurance exchanges will be created, a competitive marketplace where uninsured people and small businesses …
1783. 2010Barack ObamaThey will be able to be part of a big pool and get the same good deal that Members of Congress get.
1784. 2010Barack ObamaThat's what's going to happen under this reform.
1785. 2010Barack ObamaAnd when this exchange is up and running millions of people will get tax breaks to help them afford coverage, which represents the largest middle …
1786. 2010Barack ObamaThis legislation will also lower costs for families and for businesses and for the Federal Government, reducing our deficit by over $1 trillion in …
1787. 2010Barack ObamaIt is paid for, it is fiscally responsible, and it will help lift a decades-long drag on our economy.
1788. 2010Barack ObamaThat our generation is able to succeed in passing this reform is a testament to the persistence and the character of the American people, who …
1789. 2010Barack ObamaYes, we did.
1790. 2010Barack ObamaYou know, there are few tougher jobs in politics or Government than leading one of our legislative Chambers.
1791. 2010Barack ObamaIn each Chamber, there are men and women who come from different places and face different pressures, who reach different conclusions about the same …
1792. 2010Barack ObamaAnd by necessity, leaders have to speak to those different concerns. It isn't always tidy; it is almost never easy.
1793. 2010Barack ObamaBut perhaps the greatest and most difficult challenge is to cobble together out of those differences the sense of common interest and common purpose …
1794. 2010Barack ObamaThey didn't play for the short term; they didn't play to the polls or to politics.
1795. 2010Barack ObamaHe runs a small business with five employees. He's trying to do the right thing, paying half the cost of coverage for his workers.
1796. 2010Barack ObamaThis bill will help him afford that coverage.
1797. 2010Barack ObamaMarcelas lost his mom to an illness. And she didn't have insurance and couldn't afford the care that she needed.
1798. 2010Barack ObamaNatoma had to give up her health coverage after her rates were jacked up by more than 40 percent. She was terrified that an illness would mean she'd …
1799. 2010Barack ObamaAnd now she's lying in a hospital bed, as we speak, faced with just such an illness, praying that she can somehow afford to get well without …
1800. 2010Barack ObamaNatoma's family is here today because Natoma can't be. And her sister Connie is here.
1801. 2010Barack ObamaI remember seeing Ted walk through that door in a summit in this room a year ago, one of his last public appearances. And it was hard for him to make …
1802. 2010Barack ObamaOur presence here today is remarkable and improbable.
1803. 2010Barack ObamaWith all the punditry, all of the lobbying, all of the game-playing that passes for governing in Washington, it's been easy at times to doubt our …
1804. 2010Barack ObamaThis is going to take a little while. I've got to use every pen, so it's going to take a really long time.
1805. 2010Barack ObamaWe are gathered in the heart of our Nation's Capital, surrounded by memorials to leaders and citizens who served our Nation in its earliest days and …
1806. 2010Barack ObamaOver the past 2 years, we have faced the worst recession since the Great Depression.
1807. 2010Barack ObamaEight million people lost their jobs. Tens of millions saw the value of their homes and retirement savings plummet. Countless businesses have been …
1808. 2010Barack ObamaAnd although the economy is growing again, too many people are still feeling the pain of the downturn.
1809. 2010Barack ObamaNow, while a number of factors led to such a severe recession, the primary cause was a breakdown in our financial system.
1810. 2010Barack ObamaFor years, our financial sector was governed by antiquated and poorly enforced rules that allowed some to game the system and take risks that …
1811. 2010Barack ObamaUnscrupulous lenders locked consumers into complex loans with hidden costs.
1812. 2010Barack ObamaFirms like AIG placed massive, risky bets with borrowed money.
1813. 2010Barack ObamaAnd while the rules left abuse and excess unchecked, they also left taxpayers on the hook if a big bank or financial institution ever failed.
1814. 2010Barack ObamaToday, thanks to a lot of people in this room, those reforms will become the law of the land.
1815. 2010Barack ObamaFor the last year, Chairmen Barney Frank and Chris Dodd have worked day and night--[applause]--Barney and Chris have worked day and night to bring …
1816. 2010Barack ObamaIt wouldn't have happened without them.
1817. 2010Barack ObamaPassing this bill was no easy task.
1818. 2010Barack ObamaTo get there, we had to overcome the furious lobbying of an array of powerful interest groups and a partisan minority determined to block change.
1819. 2010Barack ObamaSo the Members who are here today, both on the stage and in the audience, they have done a great service in devoting so much time and expertise to …
1820. 2010Barack ObamaThe fact is, the financial industry is central to our Nation's ability to grow, to prosper, to compete, and to innovate.
1821. 2010Barack ObamaThere are a lot of banks that understand and fulfill this vital role, and there are a whole lot of bankers out there who want to do right--and do …
1822. 2010Barack ObamaThis reform will help foster innovation, not hamper it.
1823. 2010Barack ObamaIt is designed to make sure that everybody follows the same set of rules so that firms compete on price and quality, not on tricks and not on traps.
1824. 2010Barack ObamaIt demands accountability and responsibility from everyone. It provides certainty to everybody, from bankers to farmers to business owners to …
1825. 2010Barack ObamaIf you've ever applied for a credit card, a student loan, or a mortgage, you know the feeling of signing your name to pages of barely understandable …
1826. 2010Barack ObamaWhat often happens as a result is that many Americans are caught by hidden fees and penalties or saddled with loans they can't afford.
1827. 2010Barack ObamaThat's what happened to Robin Fox, hit with a massive rate increase on her credit card balance, even though she paid her bills on time.
1828. 2010Barack ObamaThat's what happened to Andrew Giordano, who discovered hundreds of dollars in overdraft fees on his bank statement, fees he had no idea he might …
1829. 2010Barack ObamaAnd both are here today.
1830. 2010Barack ObamaSo all told, these reforms represent the strongest consumer financial protections in history--in history.
1831. 2010Barack ObamaAnd that's not just good for consumers; that's good for the economy.
1832. 2010Barack ObamaBecause reform will put a stop to a lot of the bad loans that fueled a debt-based bubble. And it will mean all companies will have to seek customers …
1833. 2010Barack ObamaNow, beyond the consumer protections I've outlined, reform will also rein in the abuse and excess that nearly brought down our financial system.
1834. 2010Barack ObamaIt will finally bring transparency to the kinds of complex and risky transactions that helped trigger the financial crisis.
1835. 2010Barack ObamaShareholders will also have a greater say on the pay of CEOs and other executives, so they can reward success instead of failure.
1836. 2010Barack ObamaIf a large financial institution should ever fail, this reform gives us the ability to wind it down without endangering the broader economy.
1837. 2010Barack ObamaThat's what this reform will mean.
1838. 2010Barack ObamaWe may need to make adjustments along the way as our financial system adapts to these new changes and changes around the globe.
1839. 2010Barack ObamaNo law can force anybody to be responsible;
1840. 2010Barack ObamaThe fact is, every American, from Main Street to Wall Street, has a stake in our financial system.
1841. 2010Barack ObamaWall Street banks and firms invest the capital that makes it possible for startups to sell new products. They provide loans to businesses to expand …
1842. 2010Barack ObamaThat's why we'll all stand to gain from these reforms.
1843. 2010Barack ObamaWe all win when investors around the world have confidence in our markets. We all win when shareholders have more power and more information. We all …
1844. 2010Barack ObamaBecause that's how we will ensure that our economy works for consumers, that it works for investors, that it works for financial institutions, that …
1845. 2010Barack ObamaThis is the central lesson not only of this crisis but of our history.
1846. 2010Barack ObamaWe rise or fall together as one Nation.
1847. 2010Barack ObamaSo these reforms will help lift our economy and lead all of us to a stronger, more prosperous future.
1848. 2011Barack ObamaTonight I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Usama bin Laden, the …
1849. 2011Barack ObamaIt was nearly 10 years ago that a bright September day was darkened by the worst attack on the American people in our history.
1850. 2011Barack ObamaThe images of 9/11 are seared into our national memory: hijacked planes cutting through a cloudless September sky; the Twin Towers collapsing to the …
1851. 2011Barack ObamaAnd yet we know that the worst images are those that were unseen to the world: the empty seat at the dinner table; children who were forced to grow …
1852. 2011Barack ObamaOn September 11, 2001, in our time of grief, the American people came together. We offered our neighbors a hand, and we offered the wounded our …
1853. 2011Barack ObamaOn that day, no matter where we came from, what God we prayed to, or what race or ethnicity we were, we were united as one American family.
1854. 2011Barack ObamaWe were also united in our resolve to protect our Nation and to bring those who committed this vicious attack to justice.
1855. 2011Barack ObamaWe quickly learned that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by Al Qaida, an organization headed by Usama bin Laden, which had openly declared war on …
1856. 2011Barack ObamaOver the last 10 years, thanks to the tireless and heroic work of our military and our counterterrorism professionals, we've made great strides in …
1857. 2011Barack ObamaIn Afghanistan, we removed the Taliban Government, which had given bin Laden and Al Qaida safe haven and support. And around the globe, we worked …
1858. 2011Barack ObamaMeanwhile, Al Qaida continued to operate from along that border and operate through its affiliates across the world.
1859. 2011Barack ObamaThen, last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden.
1860. 2011Barack ObamaIt was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground.
1861. 2011Barack ObamaI met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a …
1862. 2011Barack ObamaToday, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
1863. 2011Barack ObamaA small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability.
1864. 2011Barack ObamaNo Americans were harmed.
1865. 2011Barack ObamaAfter a firefight, they killed Usama bin Laden and took custody of his body.
1866. 2011Barack ObamaFor over two decades, bin Laden has been Al Qaida's leader and symbol and has continued to plot attacks against our country and our friends and …
1867. 2011Barack ObamaThe death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our Nation's effort to defeat Al Qaida.
1868. 2011Barack ObamaThere's no doubt that Al Qaida will continue to pursue attacks against us.
1869. 2011Barack ObamaIndeed, Al Qaida has slaughtered scores of Muslims in many countries, including our own.
1870. 2011Barack ObamaThat is what we've done.
1871. 2011Barack ObamaIndeed, bin Laden had declared war against Pakistan as well and ordered attacks against the Pakistani people.
1872. 2011Barack ObamaTonight I called President Zardari, and my team has also spoken with their Pakistani counterparts.
1873. 2011Barack ObamaThe American people did not choose this fight. It came to our shores and started with the senseless slaughter of our citizens.
1874. 2011Barack ObamaAfter nearly 10 years of service, struggle, and sacrifice, we know well the costs of war.
1875. 2011Barack ObamaSo Americans understand the costs of war.
1876. 2011Barack ObamaThe American people do not see their work nor know their names, but tonight they feel the satisfaction of their work and the result of their pursuit …
1877. 2011Barack ObamaAnd they are part of a generation that has borne the heaviest share of the burden since that September day.
1878. 2011Barack ObamaI know that it has, at times, frayed.
1879. 2011Barack ObamaYet today's achievement is a testament to the greatness of our country and the determination of the American people.
1880. 2011Barack ObamaThe cause of securing our country is not complete.
1881. 2011Barack ObamaBut tonight we are once again reminded that America can do whatever we set our mind to.
1882. 2012Barack ObamaThey lost their lives in a school that could have been any school, in a quiet town full of good and decent people that could be any town in America.
1883. 2012Barack ObamaI can only hope it helps for you to know that you're not alone in your grief; that our world too has been torn apart; that all across this land of …
1884. 2012Barack ObamaAs these difficult days have unfolded, you've also inspired us with stories of strength and resolve and sacrifice.
1885. 2012Barack ObamaWe know that when danger arrived in the halls of Sandy Hook Elementary, the school's staff did not flinch; they did not hesitate.
1886. 2012Barack ObamaDawn Hochsprung and Mary Sherlach, Vicki Soto, Lauren Rousseau, Rachel D'Avino, and Anne Marie Murphy—they responded as we all hope we might respond …
1887. 2012Barack ObamaAnd we know that good guys came: the first-responders who raced to the scene, helping to guide those in harm's way to safety and comfort those in …
1888. 2012Barack ObamaAs a community, you've inspired us, Newtown.
1889. 2012Barack ObamaIn the face of indescribable violence, in the face of unconscionable evil, you've looked out for each other, and you've cared for one another, and …
1890. 2012Barack ObamaAnd with time and God's grace, that love will see you through.
1891. 2012Barack ObamaWith their very first cry, this most precious, vital part of ourselves—our child—is suddenly exposed to the world, to possible mishap or malice.
1892. 2012Barack ObamaAnd every parent knows there is nothing we will not do to shield our children from harm.
1893. 2012Barack ObamaAnd yet we also know that with that child's very first step and each step after that, they're separating from us; that we won't—that we can't—always …
1894. 2012Barack ObamaAnd we learn that our most important job is to give them what they need to become self-reliant and capable and resilient, ready to face the world …
1895. 2012Barack ObamaAnd we know we can't do this by ourselves.
1896. 2012Barack ObamaIt comes as a shock at a certain point where you realize, no matter how much you love these kids, you can't do it by yourself; that this job of …
1897. 2012Barack ObamaThat's how, as a society, we will be judged.
1898. 2012Barack ObamaI've been reflecting on this the last few days, and if we're honest with ourselves, the answer is no. We're not doing enough.
1899. 2012Barack ObamaSince I've been President, this is the fourth time we have come together to comfort a grieving community torn apart by mass shootings, the fourth …
1900. 2012Barack ObamaAnd in between, there have been an endless series of deadly shootings across the country, almost daily reports of victims, many of them children, in …
1901. 2012Barack ObamaNo single law—no set of laws—can eliminate evil from the world or prevent every senseless act of violence in our society.
1902. 2012Barack ObamaSurely, we can do better than this.
1903. 2012Barack ObamaIf there is even one step we can take to save another child or another parent or another town from the grief that's visited Tucson and Aurora and Oak …
1904. 2012Barack ObamaWe know our time on this Earth is fleeting.
1905. 2012Barack ObamaWe know that we will each have our share of pleasure and pain; that even after we chase after some earthly goal, whether it's wealth or power or fame …
1906. 2012Barack ObamaWe know that no matter how good our intentions, we'll all stumble sometimes, in some way. We'll make mistakes; we will experience hardships.
1907. 2012Barack ObamaAnd even when we're trying to do the right thing, we know that much of our time will be spent groping through the darkness, so often unable to …
1908. 2012Barack ObamaThere's only one thing we can be sure of, and that is the love that we have: for our children, for our families, for each other.
1909. 2012Barack ObamaThe warmth of a small child's embrace: That is true.
1910. 2012Barack ObamaWe know we're always doing right when we're taking care of them, when we're teaching them well, when we're showing acts of kindness. We don't go …
1911. 2012Barack ObamaThat's what we can be sure of. And that's what you, the people of Newtown, have reminded us. That's how you've inspired us. You remind us what …
1912. 2012Barack ObamaGod has called them all home.
1913. 2017Donald TrumpTogether, we will determine the course of America and the world for many, many years to come.
1914. 2017Donald TrumpThey have been magnificent.
1915. 2017Donald TrumpFor too long, a small group in our Nation's Capital has reaped the rewards of Government while the people have borne the cost.
1916. 2017Donald TrumpWashington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered, but the jobs left, and the factories closed. The …
1917. 2017Donald TrumpTheir victories have not been your victories; their triumphs have not been your triumphs; and while they celebrated in our Nation's Capital, there …
1918. 2017Donald TrumpIt belongs to everyone gathered here today and everyone watching all across America.
1919. 2017Donald TrumpEveryone is listening to you now.
1920. 2017Donald TrumpAmericans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families, and good jobs for themselves.
1921. 2017Donald TrumpThese are just and reasonable demands of righteous people and a righteous public.
1922. 2017Donald TrumpBut for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists: Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories …
1923. 2017Donald TrumpWe share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny.
1924. 2017Donald TrumpFor many decades, we've enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry, subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for …
1925. 2017Donald TrumpWe've defended other nations' borders while refusing to defend our own and spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas while America's …
1926. 2017Donald TrumpOne by one, the factories shuttered and left our shores, with not even a thought about the millions and millions of American workers that were left …
1927. 2017Donald TrumpThe wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes and then redistributed all across the world.
1928. 2017Donald TrumpProtection will lead to great prosperity and strength.
1929. 2017Donald TrumpAmerica will start winning again, winning like never before.
1930. 2017Donald TrumpWhen America is united, America is totally unstoppable.
1931. 2017Donald TrumpWe are protected, and we will always be protected. We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement, and most …
1932. 2017Donald TrumpIn America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving.
1933. 2017Donald TrumpNo challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America.
1934. 2017Donald TrumpWe stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the …
1935. 2017Donald TrumpA new national pride will stir our souls, lift our sights, and heal our divisions.
1936. 2017Donald TrumpAnd whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their …
1937. 2017Donald TrumpYour voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way.
1938. 2022Jerome PowellThe Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) overarching focus right now is to bring inflation back down to our 2 percent goal.
1939. 2022Jerome PowellWithout price stability, the economy does not work for anyone.
1940. 2022Jerome PowellIn particular, without price stability, we will not achieve a sustained period of strong labor market conditions that benefit all.
1941. 2022Jerome PowellThe burdens of high inflation fall heaviest on those who are least able to bear them.
1942. 2022Jerome PowellRestoring price stability will take some time and requires using our tools forcefully to bring demand and supply into better balance.
1943. 2022Jerome PowellReducing inflation is likely to require a sustained period of below-trend growth.
1944. 2022Jerome PowellMoreover, there will very likely be some softening of labor market conditions.
1945. 2022Jerome PowellWhile higher interest rates, slower growth, and softer labor market conditions will bring down inflation,
1946. 2022Jerome PowellBut a failure to restore price stability would mean far greater pain.
1947. 2022Jerome PowellThe U.S. economy is clearly slowing from the historically high growth rates of 2021, which reflected the reopening of the economy following the …
1948. 2022Jerome PowellWhile the latest economic data have been mixed, in my view our economy continues to show strong underlying momentum.
1949. 2022Jerome PowellThe labor market is particularly strong, but it is clearly out of balance, with demand for workers substantially exceeding the supply of available …
1950. 2022Jerome PowellInflation is running well above 2 percent, and high inflation has continued to spread through the economy.
1951. 2022Jerome PowellAt our most recent meeting in July, the FOMC raised the target range for the federal funds rate to 2.25 to 2.5 percent, which is in the Summary of …
1952. 2022Jerome PowellJuly's increase in the target range was the second 75 basis point increase in as many meetings,
1953. 2022Jerome PowellWe are now about halfway through the intermeeting period.
1954. 2022Jerome PowellOur decision at the September meeting will depend on the totality of the incoming data and the evolving outlook.
1955. 2022Jerome PowellAt some point, as the stance of monetary policy tightens further, it likely will become appropriate to slow the pace of increases.
1956. 2022Jerome PowellRestoring price stability will likely require maintaining a restrictive policy stance for some time.
1957. 2022Jerome PowellThe historical record cautions strongly against prematurely loosening policy.
1958. 2022Jerome PowellParticipants will update their projections at the September meeting.
1959. 2022Jerome PowellOur monetary policy deliberations and decisions build on what we have learned about inflation dynamics both from the high and volatile inflation of …
1960. 2022Jerome PowellThe first lesson is that central banks can and should take responsibility for delivering low and stable inflation.
1961. 2022Jerome PowellIt is true that the current high inflation is a global phenomenon, and that many economies around the world face inflation as high or higher than …
1962. 2022Jerome PowellIt is also true, in my view, that the current high inflation in the United States is the product of strong demand and constrained supply, and that …
1963. 2022Jerome PowellThere is clearly a job to do in moderating demand to better align with supply.
1964. 2022Jerome PowellThe second lesson is that the public's expectations about future inflation can play an important role in setting the path of inflation over time.
1965. 2022Jerome PowellToday, by many measures, longer-term inflation expectations appear to remain well anchored.
1966. 2022Jerome PowellThat is broadly true of surveys of households, businesses, and forecasters, and of market-based measures as well.
1967. 2022Jerome PowellBut that is not grounds for complacency, with inflation having run well above our goal for some time.
1968. 2022Jerome PowellIf the public expects that inflation will remain low and stable over time, then, absent major shocks, it likely will.
1969. 2022Jerome PowellUnfortunately, the same is true of expectations of high and volatile inflation.
1970. 2022Jerome PowellDuring the 1970s, as inflation climbed, the anticipation of high inflation became entrenched in the economic decisionmaking of households and …
1971. 2022Jerome PowellThe more inflation rose, the more people came to expect it to remain high, and they built that belief into wage and pricing decisions.
1972. 2022Jerome PowellOne useful insight into how actual inflation may affect expectations about its future path is based in the concept of "rational inattention."
1973. 2022Jerome PowellWhen inflation is persistently high, households and businesses must pay close attention and incorporate inflation into their economic decisions.
1974. 2022Jerome PowellWhen inflation is low and stable, they are freer to focus their attention elsewhere.
1975. 2022Jerome PowellOf course, inflation has just about everyone's attention right now, which highlights a particular risk today: The longer the current bout of high …
1976. 2022Jerome PowellHistory shows that the employment costs of bringing down inflation are likely to increase with delay, as high inflation becomes more entrenched in …
1977. 2022Jerome PowellThe successful Volcker disinflation in the early 1980s followed multiple failed attempts to lower inflation over the previous 15 years.
1978. 2022Jerome PowellA lengthy period of very restrictive monetary policy was ultimately needed to stem the high inflation and start the process of getting inflation down …
1979. 2022Jerome PowellOur aim is to avoid that outcome by acting with resolve now.
1980. 2022Jerome PowellThese lessons are guiding us as we use our tools to bring inflation down.
1981. 2022Jerome PowellWe are taking forceful and rapid steps to moderate demand so that it comes into better alignment with supply, and to keep inflation expectations …
1982. 2023Joe BidenThe story of Emmett Till and the incredible bravery of Mamie Till-Mobley helped fuel the movement for civil rights in America, and their stories …
1983. 2023Joe BidenWhen I served in the United States Senate, I was so profoundly honored to sponsor the Emmett Till Antilynching Act alongside Congressman Bobby Rush.
1984. 2023Joe BidenAnd it was an even greater honor to stand beside our President, Joe Biden, as he signed the law that finally made lynching a Federal crime.
1985. 2023Joe BidenOur history as a nation is born of tragedy and triumph, of struggle and success. That is who we are.
1986. 2023Joe BidenToday, there are those in our Nation who would prefer to erase or even rewrite the ugly parts of our past; those who attempt to teach that enslaved …
1987. 2023Joe BidenWe will be better if we remember. We will be stronger if we remember.
1988. 2023Joe BidenBecause we all here know: It is only by understanding and learning from our past that we can continue to work together to build a better future.
1989. 2023Joe BidenAnd so now it is my great honor to introduce a leader who has dedicated his life to preserving and protecting our history.
1990. 2023Joe BidenSixth.
1991. 2023Joe Biden——sixth anniversary of marriage.
1992. 2023Joe BidenIn fact, we were married 56 years on Sunday.
1993. 2023Joe BidenI see we have a whole lot of amens to that.
1994. 2023Joe BidenYou see, I was born in Mississippi.
1995. 2023Joe BidenI spent my early years as a sharecropper and was focused up on filling up a 9-foot sack—focused up on my quota, not making history.
1996. 2023Joe BidenFrom the outhouse to the White House—[laughter]—from a time when we lived in fear to a time when President and Vice President gave us this great …
1997. 2023Joe BidenThere is something amazing you feel when you meet President Biden, like I did when he signed the Emmett Till Antilynching law—Antilynching bill into …
1998. 2023Joe BidenHe welcomed me into this place of great power.
1999. 2023Joe BidenI'm not going to tell you what he whispered to me.
2000. 2023Joe BidenIt's not new to any of them.
2001. 2023Joe BidenWe were talking about, Rev, as if it happened yesterday—the images in your head, and you —things you remember.
2002. 2023Joe BidenThat's a remarkable thing, it seems to me.
2003. 2023Joe BidenInsisting on an open casket for her murdered and, I might add, maimed and mutilated son.
2004. 2023Joe BidenFourteen years old. Fourteen years old.
2005. 2023Joe BidenBut to see the child that had been maimed, and the country and the world saw—saw—not just heard the story of Emmett Till and his mother—as a story of …
2006. 2023Joe BidenJust as we joined together when I signed the law in his name to make lynching a Federal crime—and think how long that took for that to happen—I …
2007. 2023Joe BidenWhen we ended lynching as a matter of law, we talked about wanting to do this.
2008. 2023Joe BidenBut the support from the community has been so overwhelming.
2009. 2023Joe BidenAt a time when there are those who seek to ban books, bury history, we're making it clear—crystal, crystal clear—[applause]—while darkness and …
2010. 2023Joe BidenThey can hide, but they erase nothing.
2011. 2023Joe BidenThat's what great nations do, and we are a great nation. That's what they do.
2012. 2023Joe BidenFor only with truth comes healing, justice, repair, and another step forward toward forming a more perfect Union.
2013. 2023Joe BidenWe've got a hell of a long way to go.
2014. 2023Joe BidenThat's what's happening.
2015. 2023Joe BidenThat's what's going to happen with visitors of all backgrounds to learn the history of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley through our national …
2016. 2023Joe BidenLook, telling the truth and the full history of our Nation is important. It's important to our children, our grandchildren, and our …
2017. 2023Joe BidenIt was a lesson I learned coming out of the—not like real leaders in the civil rights movement—but when I came out of the civil rights movement as a …
2018. 2023Joe BidenIt just hides. It hides under the rocks. And given a little bit of oxygen by bad people, it comes roaring out again.
2019. 2023Joe BidenThe best way to do that is with the truth.
2020. 2023Joe BidenThere's really critical work ahead to continue the fight for racial justice and equality for all Americans.
2021. 2023Joe BidenAnd I know the Members of Congress here are even more committed than that.
2022. 2023Joe BidenThe reason the world saw what Mrs. Till-Mobley saw was because another hero in this story: the Black press.
2023. 2023Joe BidenYes!
2024. 2023Joe BidenJet Magazine, the Chicago Defender, and other newspapers and radio announcers who told the story were unflinching in the bravery with which they told …
2025. 2023Joe BidenThe way to right wrongs is to shine a light of truth on them.
2026. 2023Joe BidenAnd I am—I know I'm considered too much of an optimist, but I believe if we keep pushing, we're going to continue to make progress. We're going to …
2027. 2023Joe BidenAnd it's already being made.
2028. 2023Joe BidenThe idea that when that 14-year-old was buried, that in this Indian Treaty Room there'd be this many people of color holding powerful office, …
2029. 2023Joe BidenAnd we're just getting started.
2030. 2023Joe BidenThe proclamation I'm signing establishes the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument.
2031. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoNot much time will be gained, O Athenians, in return for the evil name which you will get from the detractors of the city, who will say that you …
2032. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoIf you had waited a little while, your desire would have been fulfilled in the course of nature.
2033. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoFor I am far advanced in years, as you may perceive, and not far from death.
2034. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoI thought at the time that I ought not to do anything common or mean when in danger:
2035. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoFor neither in war nor yet at law ought I or any man to use every way of escaping death.
2036. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoOften in battle there can be no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in …
2037. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoI am old and move slowly, and the slower runner has overtaken me, and my accusers are keen and quick, and the faster runner, who is unrighteousness, …
2038. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoI suppose that these things may be regarded as fated,—and I think that they are well.
2039. 399 BCSocrates, via Platofor I am about to die, and in the hour of death men are gifted with prophetic power.
2040. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoAnd I prophesy to you who are my murderers, that immediately after my departure punishment far heavier than you have inflicted on me will surely …
2041. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoMe you have killed because you wanted to escape the accuser, and not to give an account of your lives.
2042. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoBut that will not be as you suppose: far otherwise.
2043. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoFor I say that there will be more accusers of you than there are now; accusers whom hitherto I have restrained: and as they are younger they will be …
2044. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoIf you think that by killing men you can prevent some one from censuring your evil lives, you are mistaken; that is not a way of escape which is …
2045. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoThis is the prophecy which I utter before my departure to the judges who have condemned me.
2046. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoHitherto the divine faculty of which the internal oracle is the source has constantly been in the habit of opposing me even about trifles, if I was …
2047. 399 BCSocrates, via Platoand now as you see there has come upon me that which may be thought, and is generally believed to be, the last and worst evil.
2048. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoBut the oracle made no sign of opposition, either when I was leaving my house in the morning, or when I was on my way to the court, or while I was …
2049. 399 BCSocrates, via Platoand yet I have often been stopped in the middle of a speech, but now in nothing I either said or did touching the matter in hand has the oracle …
2050. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoIt is an intimation that what has happened to me is a good, and that those of us who think that death is an evil are in error.
2051. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoFor the customary sign would surely have opposed me had I been going to evil and not to good.
2052. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoNow if you suppose that there is no consciousness, but a sleep like the sleep of him who is undisturbed even by dreams, death will be an unspeakable …
2053. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoFor if a person were to select the night in which his sleep was undisturbed even by dreams, and were to compare with this the other days and nights …
2054. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoNow if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is gain; for eternity is then only a single night.
2055. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoIf indeed when the pilgrim arrives in the world below, he is delivered from the professors of justice in this world, and finds the true judges who …
2056. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoIn another world they do not put a man to death for asking questions: assuredly not.
2057. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoFor besides being happier than we are, they will be immortal, if what is said is true.
2058. 399 BCSocrates, via Platothat no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
2059. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoHe and his are not neglected by the gods; nor has my own approaching end happened by mere chance.
2060. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoBut I see clearly that the time had arrived when it was better for me to die and be released from trouble; wherefore the oracle gave no sign.
2061. 399 BCSocrates, via Platothey have done me no harm, although they did not mean to do me any good;
2062. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoStill I have a favour to ask of them.
2063. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoAnd if you do this, both I and my sons will have received justice at your hands.
2064. 399 BCSocrates, via PlatoThe hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live.
2065. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesFor myself, I should have thought that the worth which had displayed itself in deeds would be sufficiently rewarded by honours also shown by deeds; …
2066. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesFor it is hard to speak properly upon a subject where it is even difficult to convince your hearers that you are speaking the truth.
2067. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesFor men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: …
2068. 431 BCPericles, via Thucydidesit is both just and proper that they should have the honour of the first mention on an occasion like the present.
2069. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesThey dwelt in the country without break in the succession from generation to generation, and handed it down free to the present time by their valour.
2070. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesAnd if our more remote ancestors deserve praise, much more do our own fathers, who added to their inheritance the empire which we now possess, and …
2071. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesLastly, there are few parts of our dominions that have not been augmented by those of us here, who are still more or less in the vigour of life; …
2072. 431 BCPericles, via Thucydides"Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighbouring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves.
2073. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesIts administration favours the many instead of the few; this is why it is called a democracy.
2074. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesIf we look to the laws, they afford equal justice to all in their private differences; if no social standing, advancement in public life falls to …
2075. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesThe freedom which we enjoy in our government extends also to our ordinary life.
2076. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesThere, far from exercising a jealous surveillance over each other, we do not feel called upon to be angry with our neighbour for doing what he likes, …
2077. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesBut all this ease in our private relations does not make us lawless as citizens.
2078. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesAgainst this fear is our chief safeguard, teaching us to obey the magistrates and the laws, particularly such as regard the protection of the …
2079. 431 BCPericles, via Thucydides"Further, we provide plenty of means for the mind to refresh itself from business.
2080. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesWe celebrate games and sacrifices all the year round, and the elegance of our private establishments forms a daily source of pleasure and helps to …
2081. 431 BCPericles, via Thucydides"If we turn to our military policy, there also we differ from our antagonists.
2082. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesWe throw open our city to the world, and never by alien acts exclude foreigners from any opportunity of learning or observing, although the eyes of …
2083. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesIn proof of this it may be noticed that the Lacedaemonians do not invade our country alone, but bring with them all their confederates; while we …
2084. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesAnd yet if with habits not of labour but of ease, and courage not of art but of nature, we are still willing to encounter danger, we have the double …
2085. 431 BCPericles, via Thucydides"Nor are these the only points in which our city is worthy of admiration.
2086. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesWe cultivate refinement without extravagance and knowledge without effeminacy; wealth we employ more for use than for show, and place the real …
2087. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesOur public men have, besides politics, their private affairs to attend to, and our ordinary citizens, though occupied with the pursuits of industry, …
2088. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesAgain, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united in the …
2089. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesBut the palm of courage will surely be adjudged most justly to those, who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never …
2090. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesIn generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.
2091. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesYet, of course, the doer of the favour is the firmer friend of the two, in order by continued kindness to keep the recipient in his debt; while the …
2092. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesFor Athens alone of her contemporaries is found when tested to be greater than her reputation, and alone gives no occasion to her assailants to blush …
2093. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesSuch is the Athens for which these men, in the assertion of their resolve not to lose her, nobly fought and died;
2094. 431 BCPericles, via Thucydidesfor the Athens that I have celebrated is only what the heroism of these and their like have made her, men whose fame, unlike that of most Hellenes, …
2095. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesFor there is justice in the claim that steadfastness in his country's battles should be as a cloak to cover a man's other imperfections; since the …
2096. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesBut none of these allowed either wealth with its prospect of future enjoyment to unnerve his spirit, or poverty with its hope of a day of freedom and …
2097. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesNo, holding that vengeance upon their enemies was more to be desired than any personal blessings, and reckoning this to be the most glorious of …
2098. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesThus choosing to die resisting, rather than to live submitting, they fled only from dishonour, but met danger face to face, and after one brief …
2099. 431 BCPericles, via Thucydides"So died these men as became Athenians.
2100. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesFor this offering of their lives made in common by them all they each of them individually received that renown which never grows old, and for a …
2101. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesFor it is not the miserable that would most justly be unsparing of their lives; these have nothing to hope for: it is rather they to whom continued …
2102. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesAnd surely, to a man of spirit, the degradation of cowardice must be immeasurably more grievous than the unfelt death which strikes him in the midst …
2103. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesNumberless are the chances to which, as they know, the life of man is subject; but fortunate indeed are they who draw for their lot a death so …
2104. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesFor it is only the love of honour that never grows old; and honour it is, not gain, as some would have it, that rejoices the heart of age and …
2105. 431 BCPericles, via Thucydides"Turning to the sons or brothers of the dead, I see an arduous struggle before you.
2106. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesWhen a man is gone, all are wont to praise him, and should your merit be ever so transcendent, you will still find it difficult not merely to …
2107. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesThe living have envy to contend with, while those who are no longer in our path are honoured with a goodwill into which rivalry does not enter.
2108. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesI have performed it to the best of my ability, and in word, at least, the requirements of the law are now satisfied.
2109. 431 BCPericles, via Thucydidesthe state thus offers a valuable prize, as the garland of victory in this race of valour, for the reward both of those who have fallen and their …
2110. 431 BCPericles, via ThucydidesAnd where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
2111. 63 BCCiceroThe senate is aware of these things; the consul sees them; and yet this man lives.
2112. 63 BCCiceroLives! aye, he comes even into the senate. He takes a part in the public deliberations; he is watching and marking down and checking off for …
2113. 63 BCCiceroAnd we, gallant men that we are, think that we are doing our duty to the republic if we keep out of the way of his frenzied attacks.
2114. 63 BCCiceroYou ought, O Catiline, long ago to have been led to execution by command of the consul. That destruction which you have been long plotting against us …
2115. 63 BCCiceroFor I pass over older instances, such as how Caius Servilius Ahala with his own hand slew Spurius Maelius when plotting a revolution in the state.
2116. 63 BCCiceroThere was—there was once such virtue in this republic, that brave men would repress mischievous citizens with severer chastisement than the most …
2117. 63 BCCicerothe wisdom of the republic is not at fault, nor the dignity of this senatorial body.
2118. 63 BCCiceroNot one night elapsed.
2119. 63 BCCiceroThere was put to death, on some mere suspicion of disaffection, Caius Gracchus, a man whose family had borne the most unblemished reputation for many …
2120. 63 BCCiceroBut we, for these twenty days have been allowing the edge of the senate's authority to grow blunt, as it were.
2121. 63 BCCicerobut we keep it locked up in its parchment—buried, I may say, in the sheath;
2122. 63 BCCiceroand according to this decree you ought, O Catiline, to be put to death this instant.
2123. 63 BCCiceroYou live,—and you live, not to lay aside, but to persist in your audacity.
2124. 63 BCCiceroA camp is pitched in Italy , at the entrance of Etruria, in hostility to the republic; the number of the enemy increases every day; and yet the …
2125. 63 BCCiceroIf, O Catiline, I should now order you to be arrested, to be put to death, I should, I suppose, have to fear lest all good men should say that I had …
2126. 63 BCCiceroBut yet this, which ought to have been done long since, I have good reason for not doing as yet;
2127. 63 BCCiceroYou are hemmed in on all sides; all your plans are clearer than the day to us;
2128. 63 BCCiceroYou do nothing, you plan nothing, you think of nothing which I not only do not hear, but which I do not see and know every particular of.
2129. 63 BCCiceroI say that you came the night before (I will say nothing obscurely) into the Scythe-dealers' street, to the house of Marcus Lecca; that many of your …
2130. 63 BCCicerofor I see here in the senate some men who were there with you.
2131. 63 BCCiceroThere are here,—here in our body, O conscript fathers, in this the most holy and dignified assembly of the whole world, men who meditate my death, …
2132. 63 BCCiceroI, the consul see them; I ask them their opinion about the republic, and I do not yet attack, even by words, those who ought to be put to death by …
2133. 63 BCCiceroYou were, then, O Catiline, at Lecca's that night; you divided Italy into sections; you settled where every one was to go; you fixed whom you were to …
2134. 63 BCCiceroAll this I knew almost before your meeting had broken up.
2135. 63 BCCiceroI strengthened and fortified my house with a stronger guard; I refused admittance, when they came, to those whom you sent in the morning to salute …
2136. 63 BCCiceroThat Manlian camp of yours has been waiting too long for you as its general.
2137. 63 BCCiceroyou will deliver me from a great fear, when there is a wall between me and you.
2138. 63 BCCiceroBut the safety of the commonwealth must not be too often allowed to be risked on one man.
2139. 63 BCCiceroAs long as you, O Catiline, plotted against me while I was the consul elect, I defended myself not with a public guard, but by my own private …
2140. 63 BCCiceroWhen, in the next consular comitia , you wished to slay me when I was actually consul, and your competitors also, in the Campus Martius , I checked …
2141. 63 BCCiceroIn short, as often as you attacked me, I by myself opposed you, and that, too, though I saw that my ruin was connected with great disaster to the …
2142. 63 BCCiceroYou are summoning to destruction and devastation the temples of the immortal gods, the houses of the city, the lives of all the citizens; in short, …
2143. 63 BCCiceroFor if I order you to be put to death, the rest of the conspirators will still remain in the republic; if as I have long been exhorting you, you …