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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)

Leadership Is The Ability To Get A Person To Do What You Want Him To Do, When You Want It Done, In A Way You Want It Done, Because He Wants To Do It.

So - Our Readiness To Meet And Defeat This Kind Of Possible Attack Is Forced Upon Us, Both As A Potent Preventive Of Actual War And To Insure Survival In Event Of Attack. This Alertness To Danger Has To Be Translated Into Specific Policies And Activities In The Several Parts Of The World Where Our Rights - Our Way Of Life - Can Be Seriously Damaged. Work Of This Kind Occupies My Days And Nights.

It Is Well For Us To Pause, To Acknowledge Our Debt To Those Who Paid So Large A Share Of Freedom's Price.

This World Of Ours... Must Avoid Becoming A Community Of Dreadful Fear And Hate, And Be, Instead, A Proud Confederation Of Mutual Trust And Respect.