John F. Kennedy: “For you and I are privileged to serve the great Republic in what could be the most decisive decade in its long history.”

If, on the other hand, we hang back in deference to local economic pressures, we will find ourselves cut off from our major allies.

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

But the quest is the greatest adventure of our century.

But as an institution, it should have in the future, as it has had in the past since its inception, no stronger or more faithful member than the United States of America.