John F. Kennedy: “These various elements in our foreign policy lead, as I have said, to a single goal--the goal of a peaceful world of…”

First, we need to strengthen our Nation by investing in our youth.

For together we face a common challenge: to enlarge the prosperity of free men everywhere--to build in partnership a new trading community in which all free nations may gain from the productive energy of free competitive effort.

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.

And, while the occasion does not call for another recital of our blessings and assets, we do have no greater asset than the willingness of a free and determined people, through its elected officials, to face all problems frankly and meet…