In my judgment, it wants to be not only a great country, which it is; it wants to be a greater country.
Editor's note · Context
Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Kalamazoo, MI
Share & report
More from John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Along with the German people, we have followed intently efforts to bring up the survivors, whose courage we all admire.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.
Never has there been any question in my mind, President Eisenhower said recently, as to the necessity of a program of economic and military aid to keep the free nations of the world from being overrun by the Communists.
We are attempting, in cooperation with the State and the city, as Reverend Potter described, to carry out a pilot program here in the city of New York, but it is only a beginning, and there are hundreds of thousands without resources, and…





