John F. Kennedy: “And I shall recommend plans for a massive attack to end this adult illiteracy.”

Members of the Congress: The United States did not rise to greatness by waiting for others to lead.

This is our guide for the present and our vision for the future--a free community of nations, independent but interdependent, uniting north and south, east and west, in one great family of man, outgrowing and transcending the hates and…

And while no nation has ever faced such a challenge, no nation has ever been so ready to seize the burden and the glory of freedom.

For my part, I shall withhold from neither the Congress nor the people any fact or report, past, present, or future, which is necessary for an informed judgment of our conduct and hazards.