John F. Kennedy: “We increased the previous defense budget by 15 percent--not in the expectation of war but for the preservation of peace.”

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.

If, on the other hand, we hang back in deference to local economic pressures, we will find ourselves cut off from our major allies.

But the quest is the greatest adventure of our century.