QUOTES
Freedom
"We
cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."
"If we confuse dissent with disloyalty — if we deny the right of the individual
to be wrong, unpopular, eccentric or unorthodox — if we deny the essence of racial
equality then hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa who are shopping about for
a new allegiance will conclude that we are concerned to defend a myth and our
present privileged status. Every act that denies or limits the freedom of the
individual in this country costs us the. . . confidence of men and women who aspire
to that freedom and independence of which we speak and for which our ancestors
fought."
Nothing
To Fear
"We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven
by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and doctrine and
remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to
write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were for the moment unpopular.
We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility
for the result. There is no way for a citizen of the Republic to abdicate his
responsibility."
Miscellaneous
"Good night, and good luck."
"[televison]
can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire, but it can do so only
to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it
is merely wires and lights in a box."
The
speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can
multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
To
be persuasive we must be belivable; to be believable we must be credible; credible
we must be truthful.
