Appreciates this tremendous reception, but has a message to give to you and the American People. [ cheers and applause ] chairman mccormick, my fellow americans, i accept your nomination. [ cheers and applause ] i accept the duty of leading this party to victory this year. [ cheers and applause ] and i thank you. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for placing at my side the man that last night you so wisely selected to be the next Vice President of the United States. [ cheers and applause ] i. Know i speak for each of you and all of you when i say we, he proved himself tonight in that great acceptance speech. [ cheers and applause ] and i think for both of us when i tell you that from monday on hes going to be available for such speeches in all 50 states. We will try to lead you as we led by that great champion of freedom the man from independence, harry s. Truman. [ cheers and applause ] but the but the gladness of this high occasion cannot mask the sorrow which shares our heart. So let us here tonight each of us, all of us, rededicate ourselves to keeping burning the golden torch of promise which John Fitzgerald kennedy set aflame. [ cheers and applause ] and let none of us stop to rest until we have written in to the law of the land all the suggestions that made up the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Program and then let us continue to supplement that program with the kind of laws that he would have us write. [ cheers and applause ] tonight we offer ourselves on our record and by our platform as a party for all americans, and allamerican party for all americans. [ cheers and applause ] this prosperous people, this land of reasonable men has no place for any partisanship or prejudice. The needs of all can never be met by parties of the few. [ applause ] the needs of all cannot be met by a business party. Or a labor party. Not by a war party or a peace party. Not by a Southern Party or a northern party. [ applause ] our needs will meet our needs only if were served by party, which serves all our people. We are members together of such a party. The Democratic Party of 1964. [ cheers and applause ] we have written a proud record of accomplishments for all americans. If any asks what we have done, just let them look at what weve promised to do. For those promises have become our deeds. And the promises of tonight i can assure you will become the deeds of tomorrow. We are in the midst of the largest and the longest period of peace time prosperity in our history. [ applause ] and almost every american listening to us tonight has seen the results in his own life but prosperity for most has not brought prosperity to all, and those who have received the bounty of this hand this land, who sit tonight secure in affluence and safe in power must not now turn from the needs of their neighbors. [ applause ] our party and our nation will continue to extend the hand of compassion. An extend the hand of affection and love to the old and the sick and the hungry. [ applause ] for who among us dares betray the command thou shalt open thine hand unto thiy brother an to thy poor and to thy needy in the land. [ applause ] the needs that we seek to fill, the hopes that we seek to realize, are not our needs, our hopes alone. They are the needs and the hopes of most of the people. Most americans want medical care for older citizens and so do i. [ cheers and applause ] most americans want fair and stable prices and decent income for our affirmers, and so do i. Most americans want a decent home and a decent neighborhood for all, and so do i. [ applause ] most americans want an education for every child to the limit of his ability, and so do i. [ applause ] most americans want a job for every man who wants to work, and so do i. [ applause ] most americans want victory in our war against poverty, and so do i. [ cheers and applause ] most americans want continually expanding and growing prosperity, and so do i. These are your goals. These are our goals. These are the goals and will be the achievements of the Democratic Party. [ cheers and applause ] these are the goals of this great, rich nation. These are the goals towards which i will lead if the American People choose to follow. [ cheers and applause ] for 30 years year by year, step by step, vote by vote, men of both parties have built a Solid Foundation for our present prosperity. Too many have worked too long and too hard to see this threatened now by policies which promise to undo all that we have done together over all of these years. I believe most of the men and women in this hall tonight and i believe most americans understand that to reach our goals in our own land we must work for peace among all lands. [ applause ] americas cause is still the cause of all mankind. Over the last four years, the world has begun to respond to a simple american belief. The belief that strength and courage and responsibility are the keys to peace. [ applause ] since 1961, under the leadership of that great president john f. Kennedy we have carried out the greatest peacetime buildup of National Strength of any nation, and at any time in the history of the world. [ cheers and applause ] and i report tonight that we have spent 30 billion more on preparing this nation in the four years of the Kennedy Administration than would have been spent if we had followed the appropriations of the last year of the previous administration. [ applause ] i report tonight as president of the United States and as commander in chief of the armed forces on the strength of your country, and i tell you that it is greater than any adversary. I assure you that it is greater than the combined might of all the nations in all the wars, in all the history of this planet. And i report our superiority is growing growing. Weapons do not make peace. Men make peace. And peace comes through not strength alone but through wisdom and patience and restraint. [ applause ] and these qualities under the leadership of president kennedy brought a treaty banging nuclear techt tests in the atmosphere and 100 nations in the world joined us. Other agreements were reached and other steps were taken and their single guide was to lessen the danger to men without increasing the danger of freedom. [ applause ] their single purpose was peace in the world. And as a result of these policies, the world tonight knows where we stand and our allies know where we stand, too. [ applause ] and our adversaries have learned again that we will never waver in the defense of freedom. [ applause ] the true courage of this nuclear age lies in the quest for peace. Theres no place in todays world for weakness. But theres also no place in todays world for recklessness. [ applause ] we cannot act rationally with the Nuclear Weapons that could destroy us all. The only course is to press with all our mind and all our will to make sure, doubly sure, that these weapons are never really used at all. [ applause ] this is a dangerous and a difficult world in which we live tonight. I promise no easy answers, but i do promise this i pledge the firmness to defend freedom. The strength to support that firmness, and the constant patient effort to move the world towards peace instead of war. [ cheers and applause ] and here at home one of our greatest responsibilities is to assure fair play for all of our people. Every american has the right to be treated as a person. He should be able to find a job. [ applause ] he should be able to educate his children. He should be able to vote in elections. [ cheers and applause ] and he should be judged on his merits as a person. [ applause ] well, this is the fixed policy and the fixed determination of the Democratic Party, and the United States of america. [ applause ] so long as i am your president , i intend to carry out what the constitution demands and justice requires. Equal justice under law for all americans. [ cheers and applause ] we cannot and we will not allow this great purpose to be endangered by reckless acts of violence. [ applause ] those who break the law, those who create disorder, whether in the north or the south, must be caught and must be brought to justice. [ cheers and applause ] and i believe that every man and woman in this room tonight joins me in saying that every part of this country, the law must be respected and violence must be stopped [ cheers and applause ] and wherever local officers seek help, our federal law is broken, i have pledged and i will use the full resources of the federal government. [ cheers and applause ] let no one tell you that he can hold back progress and at same time keep the peace. This is a false and empty promise. To stand in the way of orderly progress is to encourage violence. And i say tonight to those who wish us well and to those who wish us ill, the growing forces in this country are the forces of common, human decency and not the forces of bigotry and fear and snare [ cheers and applause ] our problems are many and are great, but our opportunities are even greater, and let me make this clear i ask the American People for a mandate not to preside over a finished program, not just to keep things going. I ask the American People for a mandate to begin. [ applause ] this nation, this generation in this hour has mans first chance to build the great society, a place where the meeting of mans life matches the marvels of mans labor. [ applause ] we seek a nation where every man can find reward in work. And satisfaction in the use of his talents. We seek a nation where every man can seek knowledge and touch beauty and rejoice in the closeness of family and community. [ applause ] we seek a nation where every man can in the world, words of our oldest promise. Follow the pursuit of happiness. Not just security, but achievements and excellence and fulfillment of the spirit. So let us join together in this great task. Will you join me tonight in starting [ cheers ] [ cheers and applause ] in rebuilding our cities to make them a decent place for our children to live in . [ cheers and applause ] will you join me tonight in starting a program that will protect the beauty of our land and the air that we breathe . [ cheers and applause ] wont you join me tonight starting a program that will give every Child Education of the highest quality that he can take . [ cheers and applause ] so let us let us join together and giving every american the fullest life which he can hope for, for the ultimate test of our civilization. The ultimate test of our faithfulness to our past. It is not in our goods and it is not in in our guns. It is in the quality pip t. The quality of our peoples lives and in the men and women that we produce. [ applause ] this goal can be ours. We have the resources. We have the knowledge. But tonight we must seek the courage. [ cheers and applause ] because tonight the contest is the same that we have faced at every turning point in history. It is not between liberals and conservatives. It is not between party and party or platform and platform. It is between courage and community. It is between those who have vision and those who see what can be and those who want only to maintain the status quo. It is between those who welcome the future and those who turn away from its promise. This is the true cause of freedom. The man who is hungry, who cannot find work or educate his children, who is, bowed by want. That man is not fully free. For more than 30 years from Social Security to the war against poverty we have diligently worked to enlarge the freedom of man, and as a result, americans tonight are freer to live as they want to live. To pursue their ambitions. To meet their desires. To raise their families. Than at any time in all of our glorious history. [ applause ] and every american knows in his heart that this is right. [ cheers and applause ] i am determined in all the time that is mine to use all the talents that i have for bringing this great, lovable land, this great nation of ours together, together in greater unity. In pursuit of this common purpose. [ applause ] i truly believe that we some day will see an america that knows no north or south. No east nor west. An america [ applause ] an america that is undivided by creed or color and untorn by suspicion or strife. [ cheers and applause ] the Founding Fathers dreamed america before it was. The pioneers dreamed of great cities on the wilderness that they had crossed. Our tomorrow is on its way. It can be a shape of darkness, or it can be a thing of beauty. The choice is ours, is yours. For it will be the dream that we dare to dream. [ cheers and applause ] i know what kind of a dream Franklin Delano roosevelt and harry s. Trouman and john f. Kennedy would dream if they were here tonight [ cheers and applause ] and i think that i know what kind of a dream you want to dream. Tonight we of the Democratic Party constantly go before the people offering answers. Not retreat. Offering unity. Not division. Offering hope. Not fear or smear. [ cheers and applause ] we do offer the people a choice. A choice of continuing on the courageous and the compassionate course that has made this nation the strongest and the freest and most prosperous and most peaceful nation in the history of mankind. [ applause ] to those who have sought to divide us, they have only helped to unite us. [ cheers and applause ] to these who would provoke us, we have turned the other cheek. So as we conclude our labors, let us tomorrow turn to our new path. Let us be on our way [ cheers and applause ]
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