John F. Kennedy: “Nor has mankind survived the tests and trials of thousands of years to surrender everything--including its…”

For the troubles of a world organization merely reflect the troubles of the world itself.

A year ago, in assuming the tasks of the Presidency, I said that few generations, in all history, had been granted the role of being the great defender of freedom in its hour of maximum danger.

Our aim is not simply to be first on the moon, any more than Charles Lindbergh's real aim was to be the first to Paris.

But the world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.