John F. Kennedy: “New nations asked to choose between two competing systems need only compare conditions in East and West Germany, Eastern…”

For it is the fate of this generation--of you in the Congress and of me as President--to live with a struggle we did not start, in a world we did not make.

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

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

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…