"What pleases me most about coming here is not only this connection which all of us in America feel with Ireland, even though time and generations may have separated us from this island, but also becau..."
"I want to also say how pleased I am to have this association with these two great universities."
"Democracy is a difficult kind of government."
"I come to this island which has been identified with that effort for a thousand years, which was the first country in the 20th century to lead what is the most powerful tide of the 20th century--the d..."
"Most countries send out oil or iron, steel or gold or some other crop, but Ireland has had only one export and that is its people."
"So Ireland is still old Ireland, but it has found a new mission in the 1960's, and that is to lead the free world to join with other countries of the free world to do in the sixties what Ireland did i..."
"I am glad to take part in this ceremony this morning for John Barry."
"It is no coincidence that John Barry and a good many of his successors played such a leading part in the American struggle, not only for independence, but for its maintenance."
"When my great grandfather left here to become a cooper in East Boston, he carried nothing with him except two things: a strong religious faith and a strong desire for liberty."
"So I am proud to be here."
"In Ireland I think you see something of what is so great about the United States."
"I want to express my pleasure at being back from whence I came."
"I am glad to say that all of his great grandchildren have valued that inheritance."
"And I am proud to come here for another reason, because it makes me even prouder of my own country."
"Well, it is our home also in the winter, and I hope you will come and see us."
"There is an impression in Washington that there are no Kennedys left in Ireland, that they are all in Washington, so I wonder if there are any Kennedys in this audience."
"I want to express my warm thanks to Mayor Brandt for his generous welcome."
"The scholar, the teacher, the intellectual, have a higher duty than any of the others, for society has trained you to think as well as do."
