Just Be What You Are And Speak

The Right Of Citizens To Bear Arms Is Just One Guarantee Against Arbitrary Government, One More Safeguard Against The Tyranny Which Now Appears Remote In America, But Which Historically Has Proved To Be Always Possible.

You Cannot Tell A Poor Boy From A Small Country Town On The Plains Of South Dakota Who Has Had The Opportunity To Be A Teacher, A Mayor, A Senator, And A Vice President, That America Is Not A Nation Of Promise.

Our Opposition Will Never Understand The Democratic Party. Our Party Is--to The Unpracticed Eyes Of The Old Republican Tories--a Mysterious Contraption That Usually Seems To Be Moving In A Thousand Directions. What They Don't Know Is What Hurts Them. For All That Movement In The Democratic Party Is Caused By The Internal Combustion Of Creative Ferment, Of Ideas, Of People Vigorously Committed To The Proposition That Change And Social Progress Are Not Only To Be Desired; They Are Necessities Of Twentieth-century America.

What Do We Want For People? Human Dignity, Personal Expression And Fulfillment, Justice, Freedom.

People In Places Many Of Us Never Heard Of, Whose Names We Can't Pronounce Or Even Spell, Are Speaking Up For Themselves. They Speak In Languages We Once Classified As Exotic But Whose Mastery Is Now Essential For Our Diplomats And Businessmen. But What They Say Is Very Much The Same The World Over. They Want A Decent Standard Of Living. They Want Human Dignity And A Voice In Their Own Futures. They Want Their Children To Grow Up Strong And Healthy And Free.