We know the right way, and our opponent offers
a way which would have lost us our friends in Latin America - the tremendous
outrage that they exploded with, once he made that very silly and foolish
and immature suggestion of his that we ought to intervene directly in Cuba.
Now, of course, he has jumped off it, just as he jumps off every position
when we pin him down.
I'm going to have more to say about that in
Pittsburgh tonight, but let me say just one thing with regard to that.
Can America in this time afford a well-intentioned man, but a man who,
frankly, doesn't know the situation and who says one thing today and another
thing tomorrow? That kind of man Mr. Khrushchev will make mince-meat of.
That is what I'm talking about, because, believe
me, what you need is consistency. Believe me, you cannot jump from one
position to another. You can't say one thing one day and something else
the other day.
And, so, the last point that I want to make:
I say, in addition to the ability to keep the peace, we also will lead
this Nation in a way that the people of this district want it led. We are
going to see that America moves forward on every front, economically, educationally,
and in every other way, but we are going to do it in the American way -
and that means not by turning everything over to the Federal Government,
but by giving people a chance to spend their own money and to develop their
own country the way they have been doing.
That's why I say we are the ones who do not
tell you: "Elect us, and we will give you promises that will mean raising
your taxes, raising your prices and the like."
You know that - and our opponents can do nothing
else than that, because the programs they offer - remember, he isn't going
to pay for them with his money. He doesn't even have that much. But let
me say he's got to pay for them with yours, and I just do not believe in
going out and buying the people's votes with their own money, and I don't
think you do either.
There is a way to progress, and it is the
way my colleague, Cabot Lodge, and I offer. It is the way of responsibility.
It is the way of telling the people the truth. It is the way America has
always solved its great problems in the past, and it's the way, too, in
which the American leaders, our Presidents and others, have faith in this
country, faith in its deepest ideals, faith in our God, faith in the rights
that men have, that those rights belong to not only us, but the people
throughout the world - and I want to assure you that if we have the opportunity
to lead this country in the next 4 years, we will never forget the thousands
of people we have seen across this country, millions of them, to see your
faces. We will remember you. We will remember in seeing you that you are
the heart of America, that you stand for what is best in America, and we
will see that America at its best is presented to the world - and America
at its best is what the world wants, America at its best, standing for
freedom, standing for peace, not wanting to conquer anybody else but wanting
for other people only what we have for ourselves - the right to be independent,
the right to be free, the right to progress.
This is what we want to present to the world,
and if you feel that we are the ones who can do it, then let's have the
biggest
majority in this county we have ever had.
Thank you very much.