I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled.

To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.

For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

We must open the doors of opportunity. We must equip our people to walk through those doors.