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.

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…

I think our future can be assured, but I think we have a responsibility to ourselves and to those who look to us to move in this country.

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

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.

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.

The next 10, 15, or 20 years may determine the outcome.

Are we going to move forward or are we going to stand still?

I think the job of the next President will be more difficult than any President since Abraham Lincoln.

I supported title 3 in 1957, and in 1960, and we were defeated in both cases.