As your President, I struggle with these problems every waking moment of every day.
That light--and that promise--was America's Bill of Rights.
And tonight, even as we speak, American men are fighting in a strange land, a half a world away.
Tonight, with prayerful hope for the future, we have come here to light the Nation's Christmas tree.
America does not fail them.
In a short time I am going across the street a few hundred yards to light the Nation's Christmas tree.
In the United States, we have made more progress in human rights in the past 6 years than we have made in all of the pre...
We are in a time of testing for our Nation, a time of uncertainty for our country.
But let us here tonight dedicate this Christmas tree with hope and great confidence.
Today, the light of that great charter guides us yet.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
And finally, in Vietnam, the tide of battle has turned.
But we can say that aggression has been blunted, and that peace, with honor, will surely follow.
Few documents in all the history of freedom have ever so illuminated the paths of men.
Exactly 175 years ago today America sent another light out into the world.
Here at home, in our own land, more than 20 million Negroes still yearn for the rights and the dignity that the rest of ...
Each of you has exercised the highest form of citizenship that any citizen can perform.
They will require great sacrifice, patience, understanding, and tolerance from each of us.
