Only by trusting in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)

We are not saints. We know we make mistakes, but at least our heart is with the right cause.

Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom's enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people's surest strength.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.