Our role is essential and unavoidable in the construction of a sound and expanding economy for the entire non-communist world, helping other nations build the strength to meet their own problems, to satisfy their own aspirations--to surmount their own dangers.
Kennedy advocates for the U.S. role in supporting economic development in non-communist countries to promote global stability.
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But now the winds of change appear to be blowing more strongly than ever, in the world of communism as well as our own.
Tomorrow it can form the framework for a world of law--a world in which no nation dictates the destiny of another, and in which the vast resources now devoted to destructive means will serve constructive ends.
If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.
If they choose peaceful competition, they shall have it.