John F. Kennedy: “The choices we make, for good or ill, may well shape the state of the Union for generations yet to come.”

But there is no comfort or security for us in evasion, no solution in abdication, no relief in irresponsibility.

For you and I are privileged to serve the great Republic in what could be the most decisive decade in its long history.

Members of the Congress: The United States did not rise to greatness by waiting for others to lead.

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