John F. Kennedy: “For you and I are privileged to serve the great Republic in what could be the most decisive decade in its long history.”

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

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

This is our guide for the present and our vision for the future--a free community of nations, independent but interdependent, uniting north and south, east and west, in one great family of man, outgrowing and transcending the hates and…

For together we face a common challenge: to enlarge the prosperity of free men everywhere--to build in partnership a new trading community in which all free nations may gain from the productive energy of free competitive effort.