They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer — not an easy answer — but simple. A Time for Choosing (1964)
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. A Time for Choosing (1964)
The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so. A Time for Choosing (1964)
I have spent most of my life as a Democrat. I recently have seen fit to follow another course. I believe that the issues confronting us cross party lines. A Time for Choosing (1964)
The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain. A Time for Choosing (1964)
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness. A Time for Choosing (1964)