I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.

A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new ideas and for a better world, which has made us great.

We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a new tax incentive for businesses to expand their normal investment in plant and equipment.

Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.