JFK (1991)

Martin Sheen: Narrator

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  title card : "To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards of men." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  President Eisenhower : ...We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. And to do this three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishement. We annually spend on military security alone...

  Narrator : January, 1961. President Dwight D. Eisenhowers's Farewell Address to the Nation.

  President Eisenhower : ...This conjunction of an immense military establishment and arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence - economic, political, even spiritual - is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office in the federal government. We must guard against the aquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.

  M. L. King, Jr. : ...that "All men are created equal."

  JFK : Every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the cause of freedom around the world.