John Fitzgerald Kennedy

We cannot maintain the image of a vigorous society.

My judgment is that the next President of the United States must supply the leadership which will make it possible for us to move ahead.

Only a strong and vital America can become the model of Democratic progress to the newly emerging nations who are looking for guidance and for help.

An enemy supremely confident of its ultimate victory and willing to seek that victory by whatever method seems likely to succeed.

Events and facts have given ominous portent of what is to come

You have to make a choice tomorrow on who shall be the next President of the United States.

I come to Rhode Island and I ask your help in this campaign.

I see no reason why we should journey 3,000 miles to Whittier, Calif., when there is one living in a State 35 miles from here, who comes here and asks your help.

I believe we will do very well in 1964.

From Peiping to Warsaw, from Budapest to Havana, millions of people have lost their freedom.

I have suggested having a peace corps of young men and women who will be willing to spend 2 or 3 years of their lives as teachers and nurses, working in different countries which are backward and which are just beginning to develop…

Therefore, I come here today and ask your help in moving this country forward again.

We pledge ourselves to seek a system of higher education where every young American can be educated, not according to his race or his means, but according to his capacity.

We must act - and act now.

The elephant never forgets but he never learns.

President Wilson, in his January 1918 message to Congress, included in his famous Fourteen Points the declaration that an independent Polish State should be erected.

One hundred years ago, Ignace Jan Paderewski was born in the eastern Polish Province of Podolia, a region which was then under Russian control.

It is the function and responsibility of a political candidate for a national office in a free society and it has been since the time of ancient Athens, to tell the truth.

We see the storm coming, and we know His hand is in it. But if He has a place and a part for me, I believe that we are ready.

This is a campaign that must be won if we are going to move this country ahead.

I want to see us build here in this country a strong and vital and progressive society that will serve as an inspiration to all those people who desire to follow the road that we have followed.

My name is Kennedy and I have come to ask your support.

We are electing on Tuesday, not a committee, not a protégé, not a rescue squad; we are electing a President of the United States.

It is 3 o'clock in the morning.

Better the occasional faults of a government living in the spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.