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Nevertheless it is hard for any nation to focus on an external or subversive threat to its independence when its energies are drained in daily combat with the forces of poverty and despair.
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John F. Kennedy
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Editor's note · Context
Kennedy acknowledges the challenges nations face in addressing external threats while dealing with internal poverty.
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This Nation is the world's foremost manufacturer, farmer, banker, consumer, and exporter.
For together we face a common challenge: to enlarge the prosperity of free men everywhere--to build in partnership a new trading community in which all free nations may gain from the productive energy of free competitive effort.
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.
I speak today in an hour of national peril and national opportunity.