We are going to have to make it possible for every boy and girl who is qualified to go to college, who has talent, to go to college.

I want to make it very clear that I believe that the United States must have an educational system second to none.

Mr. Khrnshchev has spent his life in arguments.

A national campaign provides an opportunity to consider the facts and issues on major problems of our times.

I believe that we stand for rebuilding the United States, for developing our economy, for moving ahead here at home, and building our strength around the world.

Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that Divine Justice weighs the sins of the coldblooded and the sins of the warmhearted in a different scale.

Do you know what position the United States holds in radio propaganda broadcasts today? Fourth in the world.

Over 35 percent of our brightest boys and girls who graduate from high school never see the inside of a college.

If America is to grow and prosper it needs the talents and skills of all its citizens and talent and skill knows no barrier of race or creed.

Lincoln said 100 years ago, ‘The times are new and the perils are new. We must disentangle ourselves from the past.’

I do not agree - and the Democratic Party has never agreed.

I think the United States, if it is going to maintain its independence, if it is going to maintain the independence of those who look to us, I don't want to see the United States - or historians say that in 1960 we stood still.

And unemployment is not insignificant to the Democratic Party - which has always pursued a policy of full employment.

Every American who seeks a job should have an opportunity to find one.

I appreciate the chance to come here to Battle Creek and also to the State of Michigan in this campaign for the Presidency of the United States.

But if He has a place and a part for us, I believe we are ready.

I do not believe that this administration has met its responsibilities in the great areas of freedom.

Mr. Nixon pretends he opposes Federal funds for teachers' salaries because he fears 'Government control' over education.

The decision which you must make between now and November 8 is whether you put your confidence, whether you put your future, in the Democratic Party or in the Republican Party, in Mr. Nixon or myself and I do not believe that that should…

My philosophy is a progressive one.

I come here and ask your support, not merely to build this State of Michigan, not merely to strengthen this community, but to strengthen the United States, to move it forward, to have it stand once again as an inspiration to all those who…

But the Democratic Party does have a program - a program which will reverse the downward trend of the past 8 years.

We must improve our education, not only to compete with the Russians but for the sake of education itself.

I believe that parties are important.

Republican or Democrat, success or failure in November, this is a great country.