"we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."
"The people of the Congo are entitled to build up their country in peace and freedom."
"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you are 1,000 miles away from the cornfield."
"For years, our citizens between the ages of 18 and 21 have, in time of peril, been summoned to fight for America. They should participate in the political process that produces this fateful summons. I..."
"Should any party attempt to abolish Social Security you will not hear of that party again in our political history."
"Dwight D. Eisenhower, and he became president of the United States. And if I`m not mistaken, he warned of this very thing, that war was a racket and that corporations by the mid-1950s were now using t..."
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold, and are not clothed."
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
"In the District of Columbia, the time is long overdue for granting national suffrage to its citizens and also applying the principle of local self-government to the Nation's Capital."
"if a political party doesn`t have the determination to advance a cause that is right, and that is moral, then it`s not a political party. It`s a conspiracy to seize power."
"Uniformity and equality of treatment to all who are similarly situated must be the steadfast rule if the Federal programs for veterans and their dependents are to be operated successfully."
"You never put away your uniform. You must get well, to remind your countrymen every day that freedom is never free."