US Presidency
1965

If those promises are not kept, it will be less and less possible to keep them for any. And that is why on this anniversary I would call upon all member nations to rededicate themselves to wage together an international war on poverty. So let us then together: raise the goal for technical aid and investment through the United Nations. increase our food, and health, and education programs to make a serious and a successful attack upon hunger, and disease, and ignorance the ancient enemies of all mankind. Let us in all our lands -including this land face forthrightly the multiplying problems of our multiplying populations and seek the answers to this most profound challenge to the future of all the world. Let us act on the fact that less than $ 5 invested in population control is worth $ 100 invested in economic growth. For our wars together on the poverty and privation, the hunger and sickness, the despair and the futility of mankind, let us mark this International Cooperation Year by joining together in an alliance for man.