Yet our basic goal remains the same: a peaceful world community of free and independent states--free to choose their own future and their own system, so long as it does not threaten the freedom of others.
Kennedy expresses a vision for a peaceful world where nations can choose their own paths without threatening others.
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Through hot wars and cold, through recession and prosperity, through the ages of the atom and outer space, the American people have never faltered and their faith has never flagged.
But now the winds of change appear to be blowing more strongly than ever, in the world of communism as well as our own.
Today the United Nations is primarily the protector of the small and the weak, and a safety valve for the strong.
Tomorrow it can form the framework for a world of law--a world in which no nation dictates the destiny of another, and in which the vast resources now devoted to destructive means will serve constructive ends.