Never Answer A Question From A Farmer.

If Today There Is A Proper American "sphere Of Influence" It Is This Fragile Sphere Called Earth Upon Which All Men Live And Share A Common Fate--a Sphere Where Our Influence Must Be For Peace And Justice.

A Politician Never Forgets The Precarious Nature Of Elective Life. We Have Never Established A Practice Of Tenure In Public Office.

My Friends, To Those Who Say That We Are Rushing This Issue Of Civil Rights, I Say To Them We Are 172 Years Late. To Those Who Say That This Civil-rights Program Is An Infringement On States’ Rights, I Say This: The Time Has Arrived In America For The Democratic Party To Get Out Of The Shadow Of States' Rights And To Walk Forthrightly Into The Bright Sunshine Of Human Rights.

In This Time Of National Crises...per Haps We Would Do Well To Spend A Few Minutes In Considering Projects Which Grace And Embellish The Earth, Instead Of Shaking It.

We Cannot Use A Double Standard For Measuring Our Own And Other People's Policies. Our Demands For Democratic Practices In Other Lands Will Be No More Effective Than The Guarantees Of Those Practiced In Our Own Country.