America seeks a growing partnership of freedom, a partnership that is based on shared respect of reality and shared responsibility for effective defense.

The security of our alliance is only assured so long as we remain determined and strong and insist on protecting our people and their values.

So let me say, General, simply, as we begin our visit, that this enormous strength has only one purpose, and that purpose is to keep the peace for free men everywhere in the world.

We don't have a national police force.

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

We must make constant compromise and we must make adjustment.

You have gotten good government because you have insisted on it and because you have been active in it.

Prudence and progress are the watchwords of this administration that serves you now.

I want a prosperous nation, a proud nation, a peaceful nation.

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…

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.

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.

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.

We are not the sole captain of the ship.

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…

No, I tell you when your country is in trouble, when people are trying to divide, when hate and fear is abroad in the land, it is time for the people of New England to lead the way, to start the march of unity, and to say to the rest of…

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.

Responsibility is the issue.