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.

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.

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…

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 because I find here in Ireland those…

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.

Democracy is a difficult kind of government.

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

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 in the early part of this century.

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.