John F. Kennedy: “The revolution on our own countryside stands in the sharpest contrast to the repeated farm failures of the Communist…”

But if these programs were ever to be ended, our failures in a dozen countries would be sudden and certain.

We need a new law--a wholly new approach--a bold new instrument of American trade policy.

For it is the fate of this generation--of you in the Congress and of me as President--to live with a struggle we did not start, in a world we did not make.

Members of the Congress: The United States did not rise to greatness by waiting for others to lead.