Richard Nixon

In America nobody must ever want to go back.

Memphis is a splendid example, this whole State of Tennessee, the neighboring State of Arkansas, and the neighboring State of Mississippi.

I say that the principles I outline tonight are bigger than our party.

This time they're going to look beneath the party labels and see whether or not the label covers the real thing.

Because this is where they want to fight, and this is all they have to offer.

I noted that Memphis, from the little slip that the mayor handed me as I got in my car, is proud of the fact, and justly so, that you have 670 churches, and that's about 10 more than you have service stations.

The question is: How do we build a better America?

We cannot win it simply by being stronger militarily than the Communists.

We believe the way to greatest progress in America is not to weaken the States and the local government, but to strengthen the States and the local government.

I am proud of the record of this administration in this field.

The last issue I would like to discuss is the most important of all.

We want to see our agriculture come forward with our farmers throughout the country getting a better share.

We say the way to progress is not to rely on an all-powerful Federal Government, to weaken the individual, to weaken the State, but to tap all the resources of America.

May I say first to you how very moved Pat and I are by your reception, particularly on this day when the weather is a bit, as we in California say, unusual.

We want better schools, better housing, better medical care.

The Republican bill would have provided $3.9 million.

Because the Los Angeles convention left the Democrats, millions of them in this country, because they departed from the true principles of the Democratic Party, which millions support.

For 5 years we've been trying to get it through the Congress and they have refused to enact the program that the President wanted.

I want to say, too, I'm honored that the mayor of this great city, who supports my opponent, was gracious enough to welcome me.

May no President of the United States, Democratic or Republican, ever consider it necessary to apologize or express regrets to Mr. Khrushchev for defending the security of the United States of America.

The difference is that ours will work where theirs will not because we call on all the energies of this country.

This, my friends, is what America must present to the world - a country, yes, that is stronger than any other militarily and economically, but a country also that is proud primarily of its faith, its faith in its ideals, its faith in the…

You want a better life in the future than you had for yourselves, because that's the American way.

They just passed it by word of mouth.

They aren't for the people. They are only for the interests.