Are we going to move forward or are we going to stand still?
I think the job of the next President will be more difficult than any President since Abraham Lincoln.
I come here tonight as the Democratic candidate for the office of the Presidency in a difficult and somber time in the life of our country.
This is an important election, and I come to you in 1960, in October and September, asking your assistance.
I supported title 3 in 1957, and in 1960, and we were defeated in both cases.
My invitation to you is to join in building the prestige of the United States, in recognizing that we stand today on the razor edge of decis...
I think the spirit of this country is to give.
This is a contest of nerve and will.
I ask you to look ahead in this country.
I want them to wonder what the President of the United States is doing.
So in a very real sense, we are all involved.
My program is brief: that is to strengthen this country.
I am not trying to run America down; I am trying to build America up.
I ask your help in this campaign, and I can assure you that if we are successful, we are going to work to make the United States not first i...
It is the power of the system that counts, and it is the same thing of the United States.
We do not come to Niagara to see the falls.
I would not permit Mr. Nixon to escape from his party, and I wish to be identified with mine.
When the United States is in trouble, it isn't the President that is in trouble. It is the United States.
