John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “But if you hold my view that the United States as the great defender of freedom in the 1960's has to move ahead, has to…”

“But if you hold my view that the United States as the great defender of freedom in the 1960's has to move ahead, has to provide opportunity for its people, has to develop in this country a strong and vigorous society which it cannot possibly do under the administration of a candidate who reassures and comforts the people in a time of hazard and a time of peril, I believe this country has a great destiny in the sixties.”