John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Your sincere good wishes are gratefully accepted.

This is the kind of America I believe in, and this is the kind of America I fought for in the South Pacific and the kind my brother died for in Europe.

The challenge of 1960, of 1961, 1962, 1963, and 1964 is whether or not the people of the United States are determined to move forward again.

Your judgment of what you want your country to do, your judgment of what you want your country to be.

I want them to say that these were the years the tide came in.

Then I believe that we will move toward the day which was promised mankind almost 2,000 years ago, the day when there will be 'peace on earth and good will toward men.'

I saved the best to last.

The view of our responsibilities as citizens of this country, the things we must do in the 1960's to maintain our freedom - whether you agree with that, or whether you agree with Mr. Nixon that we should sit in the sun and let history pass…

Our influence in the United Nations dropped until not one of the new African nations voted with us on the question of the admission of Red China

I have yet to hear anyone suggest one single piece of progressive legislation he ever sponsored, fought for, or passed in the 14 years that he has been around Washington.

So I come here to Springfield in the last 12 hours of the presidential campaign of 1960, and I ask your support.

We will call for increased concern and effort on the part of every American

We must make a choice in this country to pick ourselves up and move forward.

I am delighted to have been introduced by the next Senator from the State of Rhode Island, an old friend of mine who will make a great Senator to succeed Senator Green, a great colleague of Senator Pastore, who will speak for the Nation…

I would have thought that the humiliating withdrawal of the President's invitation by Khrushchev to visit Russia would have indicated to Mr. Nixon that the new President himself, however distinguished his predecessor, must lay the…

We have to work at peace.

I believe the United States has to make a decision.

Mr. Nixon represents a party which has opposed progress for 25 years, since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933.

We'd never had it so good

I want to thank my three sisters and thank all of you who might have listened in.

Our big problem would be to contain Castro, to prevent him spreading his influence throughout all of Latin America.

We need progress in this country.

I want to make it very clear so that anyone who is listening who may be concerned about the matter and who may be going to vote tomorrow.

I am delighted to come to New Hampshire, for three or four reasons.

We will be in a position of inferiority.