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If, on the other hand, we hang back in deference to local economic pressures, we will find ourselves cut off from our major allies.
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John F. Kennedy
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Kennedy cautions that yielding to local pressures could isolate the U.S. from its allies.
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If they choose peaceful competition, they shall have it.
For we seek not the worldwide victory of one nation or system but a worldwide victory of man.
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.
The modern globe is too small, its weapons are too destructive, and its disorders are too contagious to permit any other kind of victory.