The United States is moving into a period which will feature great opportunities for us as well as great responsibilities and great burdens.
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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Geneva, IL
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They may be facts which some would prefer to forget, but if the United States of America, and particularly the Northeast United States, these 15 States, are going to move ahead and provide a better life for the people of Delaware and the people of Maryland, and the people of the United States, then we are going to have to do something about it.
The United States is not in the position which England was when Benjamin Disraeli described it as: two nations divided, the rich and the poor.
But there are other troubles besetting the human family. Many of its members live in poverty and misery and despair.
But don't make it impossible for us to function by legislative restraints or inadequate appropriations.





