US Presidency
1956

Let's help the American Heritage, let's help the Boy Scouts, let's help everybody to get people out to register to vote. Now, of special relevance, and to me particularly gratifying, is the fact that the country's young people show a consistent preference for this Administration. After all, let us not forget, these young people are America's future. Parenthetically, may I say I shall never cease to hope that the several states will give them the voting privilege at a somewhat earlier age than is now generally the case. Now, the first reason of the five I shall give you why the Republican Party is the Party of the Future is this: First: Because it is the Party of long range principle, not short-term expediency. One of my predecessors is said to have observed that in making his decisions he had to operate like a football quarterback, he could not very well call the next play until he saw how the last play turned out.