This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere.

We don't want to be like the leader in the French Revolution who said There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.