John F. Kennedy: “If they choose peaceful competition, they shall have it.”

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

The future of any country which is dependent upon the will and wisdom of its citizens is damaged, and irreparably damaged, whenever any of its children is not educated to the full extent of his talent, from grade school through graduate…

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.

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