John F. Kennedy: “Wishing it, predicting it, even asking for it, will not make it so.”

I speak today in an hour of national peril and national opportunity.

All of us together--this Administration, this Congress, this nation--must forge those answers.

For this is the most urgent task confronting the Congress in 1963.

These various elements in our foreign policy lead, as I have said, to a single goal--the goal of a peaceful world of free and independent states.