John F. Kennedy: “New nations asked to choose between two competing systems need only compare conditions in East and West Germany, Eastern…”

We shall be judged more by what we do at home than by what we preach abroad.

Our decision could well affect the unity of the West, the course of the Cold War, and the economic growth of our Nation for a generation to come.

There is no longer any reason why American children should suffer from polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, or tetanus.

Our instrument and our hope is the United Nations--and I see little merit in the impatience of those who would abandon this imperfect world instrument because they dislike our imperfect world.