No sane society chooses to commit national suicide.

Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb.

The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.

Every dollar released from taxation that is spared or invested will help create a new job and a new salary.

Expansion and modernization of the nation's productive plant is essential to accelerate economic growth and to improve the international competitive position of American industry An early stimulus to business investment will promote recovery and increase employment.

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.

That is the kind of America in which I believe. And it represents the kind of Presidency in which I believe - a great office that must neither be humbled by making it the instrument of any one religious group nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding its occupancy from the members of any one religious group. I believe in a President whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the Nation or imposed by the Nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.