For so long as there has been an America, there have been times when factions have risen up in our land.

For I pledge you--and hear these words-that the next Johnson administration will follow the course once set by a great President, Abraham Lincoln, who told us: 'Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and…

In the American character there are those qualities of prudence and progress.

I think I know that that is what you, in your hearts, want me to do.

For we have kept America on the move--we have been meeting our needs, we have been solving our problems, we have been fulfilling the hopes of our people.

In fact, with the help of Congressman Daddario and Abe Ribicoff, Tom Dodd and John Bailey, and Governor Dempsey, if Connecticut holds its progressive course that you are now following, you will be the first State in the Union to win the…

This session of the Congress has been the most productive and the most constructive in all American history.

For 175 years, through more than 40 national elections, the American people have said, 'No, no, no,' to people who would follow this kind of a course.

It is not any problem to start a war. That is the easiest thing in the world.

The American people can choose to keep government that is responsible, like the kind of government that you have had 3 1/2 years under Jack Kennedy and 10 months under Lyndon Johnson.

We must make constant compromise and we must make adjustment.

Because I have always, and I will always, put the peace and security of America, the peace and security of my country, ahead of the interests of the Democratic Party.

We are not out of the woods.

And I intend, as long as I am President, to make sure that the American Government is a model of prudence and economy, and that doesn't mean that we are going to neglect the sick or forget the unemployed.

It is by our deeds and not by our words that we lead the rest of the world in the cause of freedom.

These are the facts and not the slogans.

Three things--and three things only-sustain life on this planet.

And those dreams have now come to pass.

We pledge to you for as long as we are privileged to be there that we shall do what is right and what is best for all the people of this land.

We cannot meet that challenge by looking backward.

I am proud of America, and I am proud of Oklahoma, and I am proud of you.

It was about 10 months ago that we had a great tragedy in Dallas, Tex.

America's strength has never been the strength of arms alone.

The true strength of America lies in the moral might of our cause.

Tonight we strive for peace, peace in the world through armed strength and through human understanding, through the United Nations and through God's own rule of doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.