John F. Kennedy: “The first task of the alliance remains the common defense.”

But as an institution, it should have in the future, as it has had in the past since its inception, no stronger or more faithful member than the United States of America.

But the quest is the greatest adventure of our century.

This is our guide for the present and our vision for the future--a free community of nations, independent but interdependent, uniting north and south, east and west, in one great family of man, outgrowing and transcending the hates and…

But today, were I to offer--after little more than a week in office--detailed legislation to remedy every national ill, the Congress would rightly wonder whether the desire for speed had replaced the duty of responsibility.