John F. Kennedy: “But our commitment to national safety is not a commitment to expand our military establishment indefinitely.”

But as an institution, it should have in the future, as it has had in the past since its inception, no stronger or more faithful member than the United States of America.

No policeman is universally popular--particularly when he uses his stick to restore law and order on his beat.

I shall neither shift the burden of executive decisions to the Congress, nor avoid responsibility for the outcome of those decisions.

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.