Freedom Is Never More Than One Generation

This Is Not The Time For Political Fun And Games. This Is The Time For A New Beginning. I Ask You Now To Put Aside Any Feelings Of Frustration Or Helplessness About Our Political Institutions And Join Me In This Dramatic But Responsible Plan To Reduce The Enormous Burden Of Federal Taxation On You And Your Family.

Fellow Americans, Our Duty Is Before Us Tonight. Let Us Go Forward, Determined To Serve Selflessly A Vision Of Man With God, Government For People, And Humanity At Peace. For It Is Now Our Task To Tend And Preserve, Through The Darkest And Coldest Nights, That "sacred Fire Of Liberty" That President Washington Spoke Of Two Centuries Ago, A Fire That Tonight Remains A Beacon To All Oppressed Of The World, Shining Forth From This Kindly, Pleasant, Greening Land We Call America.

For Us To Ignore By Inaction The Slaughter Of American Civilians And American Soldiers, Whether In Nightclubs Or Airline Terminals, Is Simply Not In The American Tradition. Self-defense Is Not Only Our Right, It Is Our Duty.

To Many Of Us Now, Computers, Silicon Chips, Data Processing, Cybernetics, And All The Other Innovations Of The Dawning High Technology Age Are As Mystifying As The Workings Of The Combustion Engine Must Have Been When That First Model T Rattled Down Main Street, U.s.a. But As Surely As America's Pioneer Spirit Made Us The Industrial Giant Of The 20th Century, The Same Pioneer Spirit Today Is Opening Up On Another Vast Front Of Opportunity, The Frontier Of High Technology.

Democracy Is Not A Fragile Flower; Still It Needs Cultivating.