John F. Kennedy: “For every apparent blessing contains the seeds of danger--every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope--and the one…”

Our Constitution wisely assigns both joint and separate roles to each branch of the government; and a President and a Congress who hold each other in mutual respect will neither permit nor attempt any trespass.

This is our guide for the present and our vision for the future--a free community of nations, independent but interdependent, uniting north and south, east and west, in one great family of man, outgrowing and transcending the hates and…

Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure.

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.