Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum…

Your sincere good wishes are gratefully accepted.

The whole country is hopeful that your long experience in the service of your country can be drawn upon further in the years to come.

I ask your help in this effort and I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.

This is the kind of America I believe in, and this is the kind of America I fought for in the South Pacific and the kind my brother died for in Europe.

An enemy supremely confident of its ultimate victory and willing to seek that victory by whatever method seems likely to succeed.

I see no reason why we should journey 3,000 miles to Whittier, Calif., when there is one living in a State 35 miles from here, who comes here and asks your help.

I have suggested having a peace corps of young men and women who will be willing to spend 2 or 3 years of their lives as teachers and nurses, working in different countries which are backward and which are just beginning to develop…

I believe we will do very well in 1964.

I come to Rhode Island and I ask your help in this campaign.

From Peiping to Warsaw, from Budapest to Havana, millions of people have lost their freedom.