I stand in direct succession to Truman and Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, who advanced the right of all Americans to participate equally in our society.

I certainly can assure you that we are going to move this country and move ahead.

At home, we face many domestic problems that cannot be solved by looking the other way and claiming that we 'never had it so good.'

It is the President of the United States that can set the goals for the country in housing, minimum wage, social security, unemployment compensation, and in equality of rights for all Americans, regardless of their race or color.

I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

We need the full-time services of all our people.

Within our own Nation we must also give real leadership to the many moral and economic problems that face a large number of our citizens.

This Nation needs that kind of leadership in 1961 from the next President of the United States.

We have to build in this country a strong and vital society, that when we are a good neighbor in the United States, we shall be a good neighbor around the world.

I am going to save this hat and if I get elected I will wear it in the inaugural parade.

Next year a Democratic Congress will pass a good area redevelopment bill.

I am convinced that our country must remain strong if it is to maintain its role as the hope of free men.

I believe Mr. Nixon is another Dewey.

I can assure you that if we are successful, we do not say that all problems will be solved, but I can assure you that we will have a government that is moving and a country that goes ahead.

I am proud to stand with them on this platform.

We must insist that the United States make those hard decisions which go with being secure, with maintaining our freedom, with maintaining our strength, with maintaining our position in the world.

Our goals are not the same, nor are the means the same, nor have they been since Theodore Roosevelt.

We stand where Franklin Roosevelt stood, and I think in the next few years here in this country we should build a better society, where all Americans, regardless of their race, of their creed and their color, regardless of the…