And to leave it prepared always to defend itself; to leave it willing always to meet any neighbor halfway and do him justice; leave it a prosperous Nation, where every child has an opportunity to get an education, where every man has an…

I need not take any of your time to tell you how much this State and this particular area of the State means to me.

I can't tell you that every decision I make will be the right one.

I hope we don't have another one in November.

Any one of those problems can turn into serious events that would bring great shock to our country.

We couldn't make any precommitments and we wouldn't sign a blank check to a treaty that we didn't know what was in it, but that we would do what was fair, what was right, and what was just.

It was an act that I realized was a very serious act.

All we try to do is promote peace and harmony in the world, and we like peace so much that we want everybody to have some of it.

We want prosperity here at home where the laborer is worthy of his hire and where he gets a chance to get decent wages for his work.

And most of them like what we have so well they would like to have a little of it themselves.

We don't question the motives of our adversaries; we don't spend the time talking about the people that oppose us.

But we think that it is better to lose 200 than to lose 200,000.

In all of the travels of more than 40 countries that I have had, I have had impressed upon me the great faith that the people have in our system of government and in our fairness and our justice as people.

We will not indulge in any fear or any smear.

But there is no country that is willing to do that, that we know of, so neutralization is not very practical at this stage of the game.

I didn't start any war, although I would like very much to see the free people of Cuba be able to govern themselves without the dictations of Mr. Castro.

But to each one of those 200 men--and we lose about that many in Texas in accidents on the 4th of July--to each one of those 200 men who have given their life to preserve freedom, it is a war and a big war and we recognize it.

I am happy to be permitted to come here and visit with you this morning, particularly to thank you for your service to the Democratic Party.