And now we stand on the New Frontier.

I come among you asking hard work for the future.

I can think of no assignment more important for a new administration than to try to reestablish the atmosphere which was so happily established in the administration of Franklin Roosevelt, the Good Neighbor Policy.

I ask you to join us in this great effort, and I can assure you that if we are successful, this country will begin to move again.

The Democratic Party belongs to all the people.

For the making of peace is the noblest work of God-fearing man.

I do not propose also to ask Cardinal Cushing to ask the Vatican to take some action.

We together with Latin America are one.

The Democratic Party is a multi-interest party. It includes ranchers and farmers from Texas, it includes textile workers from Massachusetts, it includes businessmen in California.

You know in Texas that you live or die, that you are at war or at peace, that you are secure or in danger, not based upon the policies of one district or one State, but based upon the policies of the United States.

I don't think that it is any inaccuracy that before this country broke up in 1861 the Democratic Party first broken up in Charleston, S.C., in 1860.

I think that the Democratic Party can continue to function if it looks not only to the past, but to the future, and if it looks to all sections of the United States for support.

Lyndon Johnson and I run for the office of President and Vice President recognizing that this is a difficult and trying time for us all, that it calls for the best in the American Republic, the best spirit, the best determination, the…

And if we are elected, every American, regardless of his race or his creed or his color will be given his full constitutional rights.

I ask you tonight to follow in that tradition - to judge me on the basis of my record of 14 years in Congress.

And I want to thank all of you, and especially all you women, for the kind reception they were given here in Houston.

I don't agree with it.

If we are elected, we are going to build an American security and an American defense second to none.

For our cause is a sacred cause.

Times and the problems since the Good Neighbor Policy have changed, but the thing that was most important about Roosevelt's administration was the atmosphere that was established, the feeling of interest and support he gave to the people…

When the Texans died for Texan independence, there were not only native born Texans in the Alamo; there were not only citizens of Tennessee and North Carolina, but there was a citizen from Massachusetts, William Lynn, who came here to shed…

Reverend Meza, Reverend Reck, I'm grateful for your generous invitation to speak my views.

Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end.

This is an important election; in many ways it is more important than the election of 1932, for what was at stake in 1932 was the preservation of freedom here in the United States.

The new frontier of which I speak does not consist of the things which we promise we will do for you; it consists of the things which you can do for your country.