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…

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

And that is why we intend to work until a college education is available to every young man and woman with the talent to pursue it.

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

I come here in the last 48 hours of this campaign to the greatest rally that we have had in this entire campaign, right here in this city.

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

I come to this county which is not celebrated as one of the strongest Democratic counties north of the Mason-Dixon line and ask your support on November 8.

In Connecticut on Tuesday, our work is finished, and your work begins. I ask you to support us.

The Presidency and the President has many functions and many responsibilities, many given to him by the Constitution, and others suggested to him by the pressure of events.

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.

You can have an effect here and across the country, and I come here tonight and ask your help.

I am confident that on Tuesday, November 8, the American people will not take the old, tired, wornout road, but instead will turn and decide to move forward into the wind, and demonstrate what this country can really do.

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…

I ask your support not merely for my candidacy or that of my colleagues, but I ask your support in choosing right for this country, in moving this country forward, in picking it up and sending it into the sixties to meet its…

In a difficult and trying time in the life of our country, in the cause of freedom, may bring candles to help illuminate our country's way.

I want to make it clear that if I am elected President of the United States, I will go to Washington, D.C., and begin to work.

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

First, that we provide 15,000 to 25,000 national scholarships for our brightest and most talented boys and girls, who will return that investment many times over in their useful life to our country.

This country cannot survive unless the political leaders, those who seek positions of responsibility, are willing to tell the people the truth, and you cannot hide the truth in all the department agencies in Washington.

If we are going to be strong abroad if we are going to win the peace, if we are going to maintain our prestige, it will be not only by speeches and debates and good will missions; it will be by building in this country a strong and vital…

We look toward the day when the men and women of Poland shall stand again in freedom and justice, and we shall hasten, by every honorable and responsible means, the arrival of that day.

I think the tide is rising in Connecticut that is just going to wash him all the way out.

Thus, today, the university is, in the words of Woodrow Wilson, 'the root of our intellectual life as a nation.'

The cause of all mankind is the cause of America.

I want to be a President who cares, not only about the Nation's loss of gold, but about 4 million men losing their jobs and income.