John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The decision you have to make as voters on November 8 is which time is this in the life of our country?

He was identified with the American Revolution.

Our prestige abroad is not what we say it is, but what it is.

I stand in the Democratic tradition.

We need ambassadors and cabinet officers, we need people on every level with a sense of our times, with a sense of the future, with a sense of the difficulties of a free society competing with a Communist society.

I hope that he will read those words and accept our invitation to a fifth debate and discuss these issues.

We want him to do more than break even. We want him to move ahead.

I don't think there is anyone in this country, Republican or Democratic, that would deny that the Republican Party has been and is on the whole a conservative party, and that the Democratic Party is a progressive party.

We need not read deeply into the history of the United States to become aware of the great and vital role which the railroads have played in the opening up and developing of this great Nation.

It persuaded people who lived in the underdeveloped countries that the Soviet Union, which was once so far behind, was now the equal and the superior in some degree of the United States.

In 42 years I never saw a President who slept so much.

For the issues in this campaign must not be hidden in the shadows of ambiguity or the clouds of rhetoric.

I am attempting to show you what this country must do if it is going to fulfill its destiny.

After 14 years in the Congress, after really believing that the President of the United States can strike a blow for freedom, I come here to this shopping center and ask your help.

My argument with Mr. Nixon, and my disagreement with him in this campaign, and I believe the basic issue of the campaign is the way we look at our country and its problems.

The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.

I come here to Missouri and ask your help in this campaign.

We left New York after Mr. Nixon and I had our strange interlude.

The whole Louisiana Purchase, his decision to send Lewis and Clark to the Pacific - all that represented a change.

That is the reason that we have been indifferent to the problems of Latin America.

And they must also be brought into sharp and clear focus so that people abroad can gain added respect for America.

I say it is time we started moving again.

I come here tonight to this center of a great Democratic State.

You are participating in the election of a President of the United States in the most difficult time in our history and on the President, on his judgment, on his sense of conviction, on his foresight, may well hang the security of the…

I said I regarded that as a compliment because he was just another Dewey.