John F. Kennedy: “The world's prognosis prescribes, in short, not a year's vacation for us, but a year of obligation and opportunity.”

For the troubles of a world organization merely reflect the troubles of the world itself.

These various elements in our foreign policy lead, as I have said, to a single goal--the goal of a peaceful world of free and independent states.

Our Constitution wisely assigns both joint and separate roles to each branch of the government; and a President and a Congress who hold each other in mutual respect will neither permit nor attempt any trespass.

I speak today in an hour of national peril and national opportunity.