John F. Kennedy: “If, on the other hand, we hang back in deference to local economic pressures, we will find ourselves cut off from our…”

Industries--and I believe this is most vital--industries will move their plants and jobs and capital inside the walls of the Common Market, and jobs, therefore, will be lost here in the United States if they cannot otherwise compete for…

For together we face a common challenge: to enlarge the prosperity of free men everywhere--to build in partnership a new trading community in which all free nations may gain from the productive energy of free competitive effort.

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…

Our decision could well affect the unity of the West, the course of the Cold War, and the economic growth of our Nation for a generation to come.