John F. Kennedy: “For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for man's allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with…”

And we will have forged across the Atlantic a trading partnership with vast resources for freedom.

I shall neither shift the burden of executive decisions to the Congress, nor avoid responsibility for the outcome of those decisions.

Our instrument and our hope is the United Nations--and I see little merit in the impatience of those who would abandon this imperfect world instrument because they dislike our imperfect world.

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.