
We will not let our might make the United States muscle-bound.
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We will not let our might make the United States muscle-bound.

We want no wider war, as I have said repeatedly.

Our high voyage, Mr. President, is not to seek new lands to conquer, but to make sure that old lands remain free.

In spite of what you read, we love the State Department.

I think it's important that in the days to come as we attempt to protect this hemisphere from foreign subversion and foreign activities directed against the liberties of this hemisphere, that the Argentine and the United States stay closely together.

Now we have turned our attention, in a way, to Latin America, but we turn it somewhat late and we turn it with some of our resources exhausted.

If we are going to be strong abroad if we are going to win the peace, if we are going to maintain our prestige, it will be not only by speeches and debates and good will missions; it will be by building in this country a strong and vital and progressive society, committed to finishing the unfinished business, building here the kind of country which will serve as an example to freedom all around the globe.

It is far more dangerous to hide the truth about our position abroad - and to hide it for political purposes.

The reason that countries of Africa no longer support the United States and look to it is because we have been indifferent to the problems of that vital continent.

Mr. Nixon runs on a program of saying that our prestige has never been higher

The great problem that we face as citizens of this hemisphere is to prevent other countries from following that example.

Our influence in Latin America, and all the rest can only have the effect of reducing our prestige.

Times and the problems since the Good Neighbor Policy have changed, but the thing that was most important about Roosevelt's administration was the atmosphere that was established, the feeling of interest and support he gave to the people of Latin America, the feeling of sharing in this country their aspirations for their own country.

I think that there is no problem which should occupy the attention of the next administration in foreign policy more immediately than reestablishing the harmonious relations which existed in the administration of Franklin Roosevelt.

If we succeed here, if we are strong in this country, if we are carrying out policies of assistance to our people, if we hold out the hand of friendship abroad, if we present an image of vitality and strength, then the people around the world will determine that the future belongs to freedom.

My answer I tried to respond to Mr. Ritter with was I stated in the field of national security I thought the United States would have to make a bigger effort.

The United States must be strong; not 'Strong, if,' not 'Strong, when,' not 'Strong enough, but,' but 'Strong first.'

I can assure you that this is a young and vital country, but what we do here in our own country affects the security of the United States around the world.