Seven million Americans today, only 2 years after the recession of 1958, that are either unemployed or working 2 or 3 days a week.

I believe that those who serve freedom in 1960 should tell the American people that this is the best of times, but it is also then a time of hazard, that the United States is not meeting its responsibility, that the tide is not moving in…

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

I do not downgrade the United States. I have the greatest confidence in it.

I come here to this community and to this State, and I come here and ask your support.

The question is not merely who can argue with Mr. Khrushchev.

I come today to ask you to join in this effort to strengthen our country, to strengthen freedom, and extend our hand around the world in friendship.

If the United States is going to maintain its position of being a friend of freedom in Latin America, if we are going to be successful in this struggle which is now going on, not merely on the island of Cuba, but all over Latin America, we…

I believe that an America that understands the importance of 'lifelong learning' will be able to deal with those problems more wisely and more vigorously.

I hold the view that in these difficult and dangerous times it is the function of the opposition, if it is going to meet its responsibility as a party, to try to suggest alternative courses of action.

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.