John F. Kennedy: “Without new, realistic measures, it will someday swamp our farmers and our taxpayers in a national scandal or a farm…”

But if these programs were ever to be ended, our failures in a dozen countries would be sudden and certain.

But today, were I to offer--after little more than a week in office--detailed legislation to remedy every national ill, the Congress would rightly wonder whether the desire for speed had replaced the duty of responsibility.

But the world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

There is no longer any reason why American children should suffer from polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, or tetanus.