John F. Kennedy: “We must move along the path to a higher rate of growth and full employment.”

And we will have forged across the Atlantic a trading partnership with vast resources for freedom.

And, while the occasion does not call for another recital of our blessings and assets, we do have no greater asset than the willingness of a free and determined people, through its elected officials, to face all problems frankly and meet…

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.

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