John F. Kennedy: “The right to competent counsel must be assured to every man accused of crime in Federal court, regardless of his means.”

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

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

I shall neither shift the burden of executive decisions to the Congress, nor avoid responsibility for the outcome of those decisions.

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