Occupation: Historian Birth: July 19, 1922 Death: October 21, 2012
For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from Ma….
It doesn t require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder and if this war mushrooms ….
Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood..
No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public..
It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat..
From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America. Fro….
It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds..
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'.
Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward. Come home to the belief that we ….
Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in..
Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics..
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain..
Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world pe….
So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is..
It is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the administration of the mos….
I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth..
Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills..
And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does not reward hard work: it penalizes it….
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in..
And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world for what is noble and just in human affairs. It is the time….
It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it..