"We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its success."

[texpatriot2004]

"...We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its success. Confident and unafraid, we labor on -- not toward a strategy of annihilation but toward a strategy of peace."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Commencement Address at American University in Washington,
June 10, 1963

[texpatriot2004]

1. From the last paragraph of that speech

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough -- more than enough -- of war and hate and oppression. We shall be prepared if others wish it. We shall be alert to try to stop it. But we shall also do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its success. Confident and unafraid, we labor on -- not toward a strategy of annihilation but toward a strategy of peace.

[drb]

2. JFK! Who else!!!

nt

[texpatriot2004]

3. oops thanks - John FITZGERALD Kennedy nm

[drb]

4. Dang! Does anyone else here remember when we had a real President?

Someone who was strong, wise, and eloquent? Who made you believe in your country and yourself?

Ah, man! Those were the days.... those were the days....

[texpatriot2004]

5. I know. Right. It would be so nice to have one of those now. nt

[texpatriot2004]

6. kick it for the night owls n/t