It justifies more, not less, sacrifice to protect and extend the world's frontiers of freedom.

I make no pretense of saying that if we are elected life will be easier.

I welcome the opportunity for the United States to demonstrate that it is a vigorous and vital society, that it can maintain its defenses, that it can build an educational system second to none, that it can maintain employment at a time…

This is a contest of nerve and will.

The vigor and leadership of the President is an ingredient in national strength, but in the final analysis it is the sum of the total that counts.

Emerson once said, 'What we are speaks louder than what we say.'

This is a struggle really in a larger sense between two different concepts of government which has gone on for many years, and which continues in 1960.

Presidents may change, but the power of the United States, in the balance of world politics, in the balance of the power struggle of the world, is the great force on the side of freedom.

I think we are moving through a somber time, and I don't think there are any easy answers to any of the problems that we face.

This is a contest between all of us, between all of us who want to reach for the future, between all of us who have unlimited confidence in this country's capacity to lead and be great, all of us who look with confidence and hope to the…

This is an important election, and I come to you in 1960, in October and September, asking your assistance.

I want them to wonder what the President of the United States is doing.

It is the power of the system that counts, and it is the same thing of the United States.

When the United States is in trouble, it isn't the President that is in trouble. It is the United States.

Buffalo just beat it.

We proved it in two wars. We proved it in peacetime.

The Democratic Party stands for a stronger America.

I want people to look again to the United States for leadership.

I want us to demonstrate that we can be first; not, if or but or when, but first, now, period.

Freedom can produce a better life for our people, and also because we believe that freedom is the way people want to live.

In other words, by 1970, will we be stronger in relation to them than we are today, or weaker?

This campaign cannot possibly be run without money to pay for transportation - these are the humdrum things - television, radio, and all the rest.

What we are speaks louder than what we say.

Not to use those powers to help people, is to use them to hurt people.

We are going to have to show that not by our words but by our deeds.