If there is a single word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word 'voluntary.'

I want to pledge to you this afternoon that as long as I have a responsibility for leadership in this country, we are going to retain that splendor in America.

I saw smog hanging over our cities, and our rivers where they have been abandoned by man and abandoned by fish alike.

Every war, large or small, is brutal and is ugly and claims its toll in lives and in fortunes.

So, men have the right to protest the condition of their lives, but they also have the responsibility not to injure the person or the property of others in making that protest.

Our hope is that the North Vietnamese will soon realize that they cannot succeed in taking over South Vietnam and they will turn to the task of helping their own people and building their own nation, in which event we will turn our…

This is why, when I assumed office, I said I wanted most of all to be a peace President and to be a conservation President.

As I look out this afternoon across Lake Champlain from this inspiring Battery Park height, from the same Battery Park originally sponsored by my good friend George Aiken, I have no trouble imagining what Rudyard Kipling felt when he…

The Molotov cocktail destroys far more than the police car or the pawn shop.

Yes, we have problems, but we have successes, too.

And we shall succeed. No power on this earth can prevent us.

If we can go to Canada together and go to Mexico together, I would just like to go up to Vermont with you.

We are looking for economic progress so people can afford automobiles, and for modern highways so they can travel without endless traffic jams.

But I do know this: it must not--and will not--take us forever.

And I believe that we are doing that.

I do not know how long it is going to take to rebuild our cities.

It is the people who live in our cities and the quality of the lives they lead that should concern every public servant today.

So, the first thing we should pledge ourselves to do is to take the profit out of poverty.

Brown men love freedom just as much as white men.

To pass a law is not to achieve a final result. To spend money is not to guarantee success.

This system will at once prevent raw pollutants from entering your lake and it will purify at an economical cost the water that does reach it.

This is a problem that must be met not only by the Federal Government, but by every government, State and local, and by all the people of America.

We can have the industrial might of Lake Erie and we can have a Lake Erie where people can swim and where they can fish, and where they can sail.

And unless you become indignant, unless you people are concerned with the treatment of the poor in your town, unless you can get a boiling point, unless you can go out and look after your neighbors, unless you can make justice for others a…

Let me be perfectly candid with you: This job cannot be done just in Washington alone.