John F. Kennedy: “Members of the Congress: The United States did not rise to greatness by waiting for others to lead.”

Neither money nor technical assistance, however, can be our only weapon against poverty.

For together we face a common challenge: to enlarge the prosperity of free men everywhere--to build in partnership a new trading community in which all free nations may gain from the productive energy of free competitive effort.

No policeman is universally popular--particularly when he uses his stick to restore law and order on his beat.

We shall be judged more by what we do at home than by what we preach abroad.