John F. Kennedy: “But complacency or self-congratulation can imperil our security as much as the weapons of tyranny.”

If, on the other hand, we hang back in deference to local economic pressures, we will find ourselves cut off from our major allies.

I speak today in an hour of national peril and national opportunity.

A year ago, in assuming the tasks of the Presidency, I said that few generations, in all history, had been granted the role of being the great defender of freedom in its hour of maximum danger.

For the troubles of a world organization merely reflect the troubles of the world itself.