John F. Kennedy: “We can mobilize this talent through the formation of a National Peace Corps, enlisting the services of all those with…”

For this is the most urgent task confronting the Congress in 1963.

Neither money nor technical assistance, however, can be our only weapon against poverty.

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

A year ago, in assuming the tasks of the Presidency, I said that few generations, in all history, had been granted the role of being the great defender of freedom in its hour of maximum danger.