John F. Kennedy: “The world's prognosis prescribes, in short, not a year's vacation for us, but a year of obligation and opportunity.”

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.

This is our guide for the present and our vision for the future--a free community of nations, independent but interdependent, uniting north and south, east and west, in one great family of man, outgrowing and transcending the hates and…

There is no longer any reason why American children should suffer from polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, or tetanus.

But if these programs were ever to be ended, our failures in a dozen countries would be sudden and certain.