
This administration carried through the most extensive overhaul of our tax system since the war.
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This administration carried through the most extensive overhaul of our tax system since the war.

Every mother here is more concerned with peace and keeping her boys from going to war than she is with her own life.

The responsible leaders of both political parties worked together for the good of the country.

While we make ourselves strong at home, we must keep our guard up abroad.

I came here in 1924 to seek my fortune.

But it is not enough to be powerful. Power alone is not enough.

The National Government, as a constructive partner in a creative federalism, should help restore fiscal balance and strengthen State and local governments by making available for their use some part of our great and growing Federal tax…

The stakes in the 20th century are too high to be reckless.

At home we are going to continue the unprecedented prosperity of the last 45 months of the John F. Kennedy-Lyndon Johnson administration.

We have peace in the world and we have peace between the employer and the employee.

We are going to build a bigger and a better America.

We are going to expand that social security system and we are going to strengthen it.

I pledge you that we shall be responsible always, as well as strong.

Intensive study is now being given to methods of channeling Federal revenue to States and localities which will reinforce their independence while enlarging their capacity to serve their citizens.

The American people really don't give a tinker--don't care about what I think about my opponent, and I doubt that they have much doubt about what he thinks about me.

That bipartisan foreign policy has kept us out of war and has kept us at peace, and has left your boy at home.

California and San Bernardino are a growing State and a growing city--and a growing population needs a growing economy.

It should also strengthen existing programs of Federal-State-local cooperation in such vital areas as public assistance, public health, urban renewal, highways, recreation, and education.