As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.