Robert C. Byrd

We soon must give one of two answers-either that America is strong and resourceful enough to impart new vitality into regions of lingering or mounting joblessness, or that our Nation is powerless or at least unwilling to cope with the…

We are approaching the hour when we must decide what program, if any, is to be undertaken in an effort to pump new life into the areas of chronic unemployment which are constituting a drag upon our Nation's prosperity and which are…

When the safety of our Nation is in the balance, there is no Democrat, no Republican; no North, no South. We stand united.

Let us Americans today have the courage that our forefathers had at Valley Forge. Let us have the courage that our forebears have displayed throughout all the illustrious pages of American history.

West Virginians do not ask for mercy. We only ask to be given justice.

We must be militarily strong, of course, but the spiritual faith of our fathers is also needed to guide us along our perilous course through the days and years ahead. America was built by men and women of faith. The Founders of this Nation…

Hence, I believe that there will continue to be wars and rumors of wars until the Prince of Peace comes back to receive His own. I do not believe that everlasting peace can be secured through man's efforts alone.

Exhortations do not make for jobs and prosperity is not made out of empty promises and wishful thinking. The country needs a positive economic program which will create additional jobs, increase the purchasing power of the American people…

Our very survival as a free Nation depends to a considerable extent upon the quality of education we provide for our sons and daughters, the men and women who will chart the future course of this Republic.

Education in the United States has become the neglected stepchild of American progress.

The Russian sputniks and our own satellites are signs in the sky that the race between the Communist world and the Free World has entered a new, a deeper, a more profound dimension.

It is time we realized that the Communists are waging all-out war upon us and that we are locked in a gigantic and momentous struggle which will demand every resource of our intelligence and our spirit if we are to survive. We are in a…

With the deadwood cut away and with the freeloaders removed, we would then have a foreign-aid program which we could all conscientiously support.

I am against a foreign-aid program that rewards neutrals and potential enemies with greater handouts than we give to our friends. I am against the waste and inefficiency that have been found to exist in this program.

After years of pouring out our money we are confronted with a surging tide of resentment against America, attacks upon our motives and our integrity, and the insulting indictment that we are suckers. Any resemblance between these gigantic…

To submit to shameful abuses against our American citizens and our flag is not serving the cause of peace. It is only encouragement to aggressors to increase their provocations.

I maintain that foreign aid will not achieve its purpose unless carried out as a part of a larger foreign policy which is sound and realistic.

Are we going to continue to permit an unpredictable and undependable Nasser to carry out his ambitious schemes to become lord over the waterways and the vital oilfields of the Middle East?

It is going to take a lot more than money to create democracy in agrarian societies where literacy, wealth and political authority converge upon a few individuals.

Democracy may emerge the victor, but it will be after a long and difficult battle. The battle will not be won by pouring in American dollars. A crash program of economic development and industrialization in the midst of a feudal and…

I ask now on behalf of all of the glass and pottery industries, can the United States subsidize foreign countries while our own citizens are without jobs?

My own feeling is that the countries which have become our wards must be given to understand that the United States cannot and will not continue to dole out billions of dollars abroad in a period when so much unemployment prevails at home.

Were President Eisenhower able, from the standpoint of experience and physical condition, to prove himself a match for Khrushchev at the conference table, there might be some slim reason to hope that we would benefit from a summit meeting.

Under such circumstances, and until the atheism of Communist leaders is replaced by belief in a creator and respect for human and divine laws, I must in all sincerity state that I am against a summit conference.

The discovery of a single scientific genius may mean the difference in freedom and slavery, peace and war.