Hence from Plymouth Rock until this day, Americans have been careful about the welfare of their fellow man.

Yes, to you good members of this honorable and responsible union there is work for you to do, for us to do--work to build this good society better, work to make this strong country the foundation of a great and a compassionate civilization.

Our success, the strength and unity of our society, are the targets of every tyrant in the world.

We reject the thought of our families living in a faceless, regimented, monotonous America.

I come here tonight and ask you to join us, ask you to make a decision which will permit this country to have the kind of leadership which will enable us to build a strong and vital society, a society which will serve as an inspiration to people all over the globe.

But if you hold my view that the United States as the great defender of freedom in the 1960's has to move ahead, has to provide opportunity for its people, has to develop in this country a strong and vigorous society which it cannot possibly do under the administration of a candidate who reassures and comforts the people in a time of hazard and a time of peril, I believe this country has a great destiny in the sixties.

If we succeed here, if we can build a strong and vital society, then the cause of freedom is strengthened.

First, can we in this country maintain full employment, build a stronger and more vital society, that demonstrates that freedom and productivity go hand in hand together?

We are going to have to build in this country a strong and vital society that spreads its influence around the world.

Only the President of the United States can place before the American people the unfinished business of our society.

But if you share the view that I hold very vigorously, that this country is going to have to do better in the future, that we have responsibilities to meet not only to ourselves but to the cause of freedom, that we are anxious to make sure that in the future people decide that these days were great days in the life of our country, that we must move forward, we must stimulate our growth, we must hold out an image to the world of a vigorous, dynamic society, if we are going to continue to lead the free world - I believe that is the choice.

The kind of society we build here, the kind of country we develop here, that is the test of our ability to lead around the world.

I think we'd all be better off

The surgeon owes all the more a responsibility to the society of which he is an integral part; a responsibility to help make our democratic processes work.

If the day ever comes when sound economic policies fail to serve the ends of social justice, our form of society will be in grave jeopardy.

The home is the basis of our civilization.

I repeat I believe, therefore, that opportunity--individual opportunity and freedom--enriches a whole society, and regimentation merely distributes the losses that have occurred.

Indeed, this word 'opportunity' seems to me to contain much that means happiness for the human--opportunity to expand and to be useful, to know that he is contributing his share to the advancement of that great society of which he is a part.