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This is an important election, and I come to you in 1960, in October and September, asking your assistance.

I think the spirit of this country is to give.

Presidents may change, but the power of the United States, in the balance of world politics, in the balance of the power struggle of the world, is the great force on the side of freedom.

This is a contest of nerve and will.

Emerson once said, 'What we are speaks louder than what we say.'

This is a contest between all of us, between all of us who want to reach for the future, between all of us who have unlimited confidence in this country's capacity to lead and be great, all of us who look with confidence and hope to the…

I ask you to look ahead in this country.

I think we are moving through a somber time, and I don't think there are any easy answers to any of the problems that we face.

This is a struggle really in a larger sense between two different concepts of government which has gone on for many years, and which continues in 1960.

It justifies more, not less, sacrifice to protect and extend the world's frontiers of freedom.

Our security will be assured.

I think defense contracts should be fairly distributed.

I run for the Presidency with full recognition that the problems facing the next President of the United States are more complicated and more difficult and more burdensome than they have ever been in the past.

I think parties do stand for something.

I would for example, sign - not veto - legislation helping local communities to deal with their water problems by building sewage-disposal plants.

The only way you are going to provide medical care for the aged, is through the social security system.

I welcome the opportunity for the United States to demonstrate that it is a vigorous and vital society, that it can maintain its defenses, that it can build an educational system second to none, that it can maintain employment at a time…