We know that we must find some way, somehow, a path to peaceful settlement.

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

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.

We are there because we have to be.

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.

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

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.

When our Nation is challenged it must respond.

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.

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

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

We have no desire whatever to expand that conflict.

For all of my public life, when I am in need of light I turn to the REA.

We will do, though, what must be done and we will do only what must be done.

South Viet-Nam has been attacked by North Viet-Nam. It has asked our help.