John Kennedy actually said...

It is with special pleasure, therefore, that we witness the assumption by this new nation of its sovereign place in the world community.

Message to the Government and People of Sierra Leone on the Occasion of Their Independence.

04/25/1961

More John Kennedy Quotes

In the paramilitary arenas of subversion, intimidation and insurrection, an open and peaceful society is again at a disadvantage.

And when you do badly, all suffer.

When you do well, the United States does well, and our policies abroad do well.

I remind you of this only to indicate the happy failure of many of our most pessimistic predictions.