Whatever we are doing in faraway places--many with strange-sounding names--we are doing it not for power, not for territory, not for dominion, or not for influence.

We have no desire whatever to expand that conflict.

Therefore, I am giving serious consideration to asking the Congress to appropriate at an early date an additional $700 million to meet the mounting military needs primarily in Viet-Nam and such expenses as we have had in the Dominican…

That alliance is one of our great assurances that the failures of the first half of our century will not be repeated in the last half of our century.

Today, in a figurative sense if not a literal one, I am very proud and very happy on behalf of all the American Nation to salute you as a distinguished officer and a most distinguished American.

Once our promise is broken in one place, even though it is a little country called South Viet-Nam, America's promise is worthless in all places.

This is the firm and the irrevocable commitment of our people and our Nation, whatever the risk and whatever the cost.

Whether it be in Viet-Nam, where a brave people struggle for their own freedom, or whether it is in the Dominican Republic, where the spoilers of freedom have plundered and killed, this Nation--your country--will do what is right, and will…

We must do whatever must be done to insure our success.

We are giving that help, we are giving it because of our commitments, because of our principles, and because we believe that our national interest demands it.

We want nothing that someone else has.

We are the strongest nation in all the history of mankind.

We will not use our great power in any reckless or casual manner.

When our Nation is challenged it must respond.

We are there because we have to be.

I would much rather talk than fight and I think everyone would.

I am convinced that when the history of the 30th century is finally written it will be a century remembered throughout all the ages for the constructive efforts toward peace, rather than for the destructive enterprises of war.

I did not fully appreciate that my uniform completely concealed my status as a Congressman.