John F. Kennedy: “For together we face a common challenge: to enlarge the prosperity of free men everywhere--to build in partnership a new…”

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

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

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

First, we need to strengthen our Nation by investing in our youth.