Profit And Morality Are A Hard Combination

We Will Have To Decide Today Whether We Will Design The Future Or Resign Ourselves To It.

Certainly One Of The Chief Guarantees Of Freedom Under Any Government, No Matter How Popular And Respected, Is The Right Of Citizens To Keep And Bear Arms. This Is Not To Say That Firearms Should Not Be Very Carefully Used And That Definite Safety Rules Of Precaution Should Not Be Taught And Enforced. But The Right Of Citizens To Bear Arms Is Just One More Guarantee Against Arbitrary Government, And One More Safeguard Against Tyranny Which Now Appears Remote In America, But Which Historically Has Proved To Be Always Possible.

The Moral Test Of A Society Is How That Society Treats Those Who Are In The Dawn Of Life: The Children; ... The Elderly.

I Wish To Suggest That Ample Opportunity Does Exist For Dissent, For Protest, And For Nonconformity. But I Must Also Say That The Right To Be Heard Does Not Automatically Include The Right To Be Taken Seriously.

The Essence Of Statesmanship Is Not A Rigid Adherence To The Past, But A Prudent And Probing Concern For The Future.