US Presidency
1961

For, in the end, we live on one planet and we are part of one human family; and whatever the struggles that confront us, we must lose no chance to move forward towards a world of law and a world of disarmament. At the conference table and in the minds of men, the Free World's cause is strengthened because it is just. But it is strengthened even more by the dedicated efforts of free men and free nations. As the great parliamentarian Edmund Burke said, The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. And that in essence is why I am here today. This trip is more than a consultation more than a good will visit. It is an act of faith faith in your country, in your leaders -faith in the capacity of two great neighbors to meet their common problems and faith in the cause of freedom, in which we are so intimately associated