I am proud to say to you tonight that I sat in all but one of those 37 meetings, and the coolest man in that room all the time was the man that you people had selected to lead you, John Fitzgerald Kennedy

We had to make decisions and we had to move.

I remember the first President I ever saw, and the greatest President I ever knew.

I have done my best.

I am going to leave with Roy now in just a moment and I won't be seeing you any more, but I am coming back to these wonderful, happy, smiling faces, and this dry air and this fine sunshine because it is good and it invigorates you.

As long as I am your President, I am going to be President of all the people.

I could promise you only that I would do my dead level best.

Don’t let folks mislead you and tell you that you ought to change horses in the middle of a stream.

In short, you are going to have to be the captains of a movement to lead people to love instead of hate.

I feel positive of one thing this afternoon: these two men that you have come here to honor and to see sworn in will serve with the highest honor to this tradition.

I think I know that that is what you, in your hearts, want me to do.

No, I tell you when your country is in trouble, when people are trying to divide, when hate and fear is abroad in the land, it is time for the people of New England to lead the way, to start the march of unity, and to say to the rest of the world that we learned a long time ago, 'United we stand; divided we fall.'

We are not the sole captain of the ship.

I would rather be 3 hours late because people wanted to see me than to be 3 hours early because there was nobody there.

It is by our deeds and not by our words that we lead the rest of the world in the cause of freedom.

I want to tell you as long as I am President, I intend to keep our defenses the best in all the world.

We pledge to you for as long as we are privileged to be there that we shall do what is right and what is best for all the people of this land.

You must follow a course of compassion and courage.