John F. Kennedy: “But the quest is the greatest adventure of our century.”

For my part, I shall withhold from neither the Congress nor the people any fact or report, past, present, or future, which is necessary for an informed judgment of our conduct and hazards.

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

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.

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