John F. Kennedy: “The vast resources of this planet are being devoted more and more to the means of destroying, instead of enriching…”

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.

For my part, I shall withhold from neither the Congress nor the people any fact or report, past, present, or future, which is necessary for an informed judgment of our conduct and hazards.

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…