"To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best
hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of
peace, we renew our pledge of support - to prevent it from becoming merely a
forum for invective - to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak - and to
enlarge the area in which its writ may run."
John F. Kennedy
President of the United States
Inaugural
Address
1961
