The best way to begin disarming is to begin-and the United States is ready to conclude firm agreements in these areas and to consider any other reasonable proposal.

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some of them are more concerned with appearance than they are with achievement. They are more concerned with style then they are with mortar, brick and concrete. They are more concerned with trivia and the superficial than they are with the things that have really built America.