John F. Kennedy: “And the way of the past shows clearly that freedom, not coercion, is the wave of the future.”

Industries--and I believe this is most vital--industries will move their plants and jobs and capital inside the walls of the Common Market, and jobs, therefore, will be lost here in the United States if they cannot otherwise compete for…

But the world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

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.

For this is the most urgent task confronting the Congress in 1963.