Don't think of the personality of the man.

I pledge to you we will keep America strong as she is today - stronger than anybody in the world so that we can keep the peace.

I say: Travel through this country, and you will realize what a great and a good land it is.

I know there are those who raise questions about our strength, and we can never be complacent about it because new inventions are always coming along.

The farmers have been responsible for becoming the most productive agricultural producers in the world today.

So, we should try to strengthen these organizations and make them even more effective in the cause of peace.

When Mr. Khrushchev was here, as you know, he visited Iowa.

In other words, the farm problem is a product more of politics than of productivity.

Our farmers must be prosperous.

We must not be belligerent because we cannot enjoy the luxury of losing our tempers.

If we are to have the kind of economy that we want, may I say also that we must recognize that America's progress economically in the past has been the result not of what government in Washington has done but it's been a result primarily…

Let us remember that the strength of America is in her ideals, in her moral and her spiritual strength.

I realized how small the troubles of most of us really are.

I think that one of the most exciting and challenging problems that the next President of the United States will have is to make an asset out of the ability of our farmers to be the most productive farmers that civilization has ever known.

America stands for moral and spiritual ideals, for the God-given dignity of men and women.

We are tremendously pleased and may I say humble in the presence of this wonderful crowd here in Council Bluffs.

What we have to offer to the world is something more unique and more important than all this.

I make it clear that as far as that strength is concerned, it must come before all other considerations and it is the responsibility of the American people that we always maintain that strength we presently have.