John F. Kennedy: “It is a war of attempted subjugation--and it will be resisted.”

First, we need to strengthen our Nation by investing in our youth.

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.

And we will have forged across the Atlantic a trading partnership with vast resources for freedom.

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.