John F. Kennedy: “Today the United Nations is primarily the protector of the small and the weak, and a safety valve for the strong.”

Neither money nor technical assistance, however, can be our only weapon against poverty.

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.

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 the world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.