John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If we could ever bring some degree of control over nuclear matters to the world, I think we would decide that not only had all our other meetings been most useful, but all the efforts that have been made in both of our countries for so…

So Ireland is a very special place.

Ireland is an unusual place.

I want to express my thanks and also my admiration for the best speech that I have heard since I came to Europe, from your fine Mayor.

I don't know what it is about you that causes me to think that nearly everybody in Boston comes from Galway.

I WANT to express my thanks to the County Council and this is where we all say goodbye.

Even though a good many years have passed since most of them left, they still remain and retain the strongest sentiments of affection for this country.

Well, I will tell you, they have been among the best citizens and they behave themselves very well, and you would be proud of them.

I said, 'Well, you say that about every county.' And he said, 'No, this is true about this county.'

I said, 'What is this county noted for?' and he said, 'It is noted for its beautiful women and its fast horses.'

So I must say that though other days may not be so bright as we look toward the future, the brightest days will continue to be those in which we visited you here in Ireland.

You send us home covered with gifts which we can barely carry, but most of all you send us home with the warmest memories of you and of your country.

So I carry with me as I go the warmest sentiments of appreciation to all of you.

It has fulfilled in the past a very special role.

If you ever come to America, come to Washington and tell them, if they wonder who you are at the gate, that you come from Galway.

Here in Ireland the word 'freedom,' the word 'independence,' the whole sentiment of a nation is perhaps stronger than it is almost any place in the world.

I am going to come back and see old Shannon's face again, and I am taking, as I go back to America, all of you with me.

This is a great country, with a great people, and I know that when I am back in Washington, while I will not see you, I will see you in my mind and feel all of your good wishes, as we all will, in our hearts.

I don't think that I have passed through a more impressive ceremony than the one I experienced yesterday in Dublin when I went with the Prime Minister to put a wreath on the graves of the men who died in 1916.

I want to express our greatest thanks to the President of your country, your great President, to your Prime Minister, and to all the members of the government, and especially to all the people of Ireland who have taken us in.

I must say, as the recipient of this outpouring of good will for the United States, I am most grateful to you all.

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 desire for national independence, the…

I want to also say how pleased I am to have this association with these two great universities.

The world is a small place today and it is, it seems to me, important that we recognize the kinship which exists between all free people.

Democracy is a difficult kind of government.