John F. Kennedy: “First, we need to strengthen our Nation by investing in our youth.”

I speak today in an hour of national peril and national opportunity.

The choices we make, for good or ill, may well shape the state of the Union for generations yet to come.

The future of any country which is dependent upon the will and wisdom of its citizens is damaged, and irreparably damaged, whenever any of its children is not educated to the full extent of his talent, from grade school through graduate…

But today, were I to offer--after little more than a week in office--detailed legislation to remedy every national ill, the Congress would rightly wonder whether the desire for speed had replaced the duty of responsibility.