We can mobilize this talent through the formation of a National Peace Corps, enlisting the services of all those with the desire and capacity to help foreign lands meet their urgent needs for trained personnel.
Kennedy proposes the creation of a National Peace Corps to mobilize American talent for international development.
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The modern globe is too small, its weapons are too destructive, and its disorders are too contagious to permit any other kind of victory.
If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.
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.