John F. Kennedy: “Our task is to master and turn to fully fruitful ends the magnificent productivity of our farms and farmers.”

For my part, I shall withhold from neither the Congress nor the people any fact or report, past, present, or future, which is necessary for an informed judgment of our conduct and hazards.

And while no nation has ever faced such a challenge, no nation has ever been so ready to seize the burden and the glory of freedom.

Our aim is not simply to be first on the moon, any more than Charles Lindbergh's real aim was to be the first to Paris.

But today, were I to offer--after little more than a week in office--detailed legislation to remedy every national ill, the Congress would rightly wonder whether the desire for speed had replaced the duty of responsibility.