John F. Kennedy: “This combined program, by increasing the amount of our national income, will in time result in still higher Federal…”

But the quest is the greatest adventure of our century.

I speak today in an hour of national peril and national opportunity.

Our instrument and our hope is the United Nations--and I see little merit in the impatience of those who would abandon this imperfect world instrument because they dislike our imperfect world.

The choices we make, for good or ill, may well shape the state of the Union for generations yet to come.