If you want to have equal opportunity for all Americans, if we want to rebuild our cities, if we want to provide transit in and out of our cities, if we want to educate our children, if we want to have colleges and universities to which…

So ladies and gentlemen, we are in your debt.

And I think the way we can pay it is to do the best we can for our country and our people, and to commit ourselves to the great causes which lie before us.

The power given to the President of the United States, under the Constitution, particularly that of war and peace, is as great a power and in many senses more than man could possibly desire.

The unfinished business of this country is your business, and I can assure you, after being in the Presidency only 16 or 17 months, that the progress of this country will depend in a great measure on the sense of public responsibility of…

It is the task of every generation to build a road for the next generation.

But we ought to do something about it--this afternoon.

There are those who say that the job is done, that the function of the federal Government is not to govern, that all the things that had to be done were done in the thirties and the forties, and that now our task is merely to administer.

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the other systems that have been tried.

Now, Therefore, I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, do hereby urge the people of the United States to observe Memorial Day, Wednesday, May 30, 1962, by invoking the blessing of God on those who have died in…

We have a tremendous capacity to produce, which has really been the most extraordinary revolution, really, in a sense, of a kind that we have had in the last 15 years.