John Kennedy actually said...

The United States, in fact all of us, love, I suppose, in a sense, lost causes, and on occasion the history of Scotland has been a lost caus...

It is a great pleasure for Mrs. Kennedy and myself to welcome the Black Watch to the White House.

The Major just said that the motto of the Black Watch is 'Nobody wounds us with impunity.'

I think that is a very good motto for some of the rest of us.