John F. Kennedy: “One third of our most promising high school graduates are financially unable to continue the development of their…”

Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure.

For it is the fate of this generation--of you in the Congress and of me as President--to live with a struggle we did not start, in a world we did not make.

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

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