We are prosperous today--more prosperous than any people have ever been at any time.

We are prepared today--better prepared than ever before in all of our history.

On this day 177 years ago our forefathers ordained and established the Constitution of the United States.

In the last two years, more progress has been made in securing the civil rights of all Americans than in any comparable period in our history.

The distance still to be traveled one hundred years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation is at once a reproach and a challenge.

The work of Ignace Paderewski and Woodrow Wilson laid the foundations for present-day Polish independence.

What great issue, what great stream of history, has he associated himself with in the changing years of the 1960's?

You remember what happened in the Truman years?

Twenty years ago this city of Detroit was known as the arsenal of democracy.

But the Bible tells us to judge a tree by its fruits. For 'what is past is prologue'...

I say the verdict of history will be that Mr. Benson has been a disaster.

Why didn't they come in 1955?

In many ways, this is the most important election since the election of Lincoln 100 years ago.

For the first time in the history of the United States an enemy stands poised at the throat of the United States.

Seventy-five years this organization has been serving America; in a way, it has been sort of the conscience of America.

But change, in the leisurely days of the past, was gradual and evolutionary; the armies of Napoleon moved across Western Europe with no more speed than those of Caesar, his predecessor by eighteen centuries.

Nothing more contemptible has ever occurred in the long history of human spite and envy.

Now we are going to be faced with exactly the same situation this time, and with your help, and with the help of the people who believe in right for everybody, we are going to do exactly again what we did in 1948, and we are going to make them like it.