John F. Kennedy: “But we mean to maintain both stability and growth in a climate of freedom.”

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.

All of us together--this Administration, this Congress, this nation--must forge those answers.

But the quest is the greatest adventure of our century.

I shall neither shift the burden of executive decisions to the Congress, nor avoid responsibility for the outcome of those decisions.