John F. Kennedy Quote

The great question which confronted this body in 1945 is still before us: whether man's cherished hopes for progress and peace are to be destroyed by terror and disruption, whether the "foul winds of war" can be tamed in time to free the cooling winds of reason, and whether the pledges of our Charter are to be fulfilled or defied—pledges to secure peace, progress, human rights and world law.


UN speech, 25 September 1961


The great question which confronted this body in 1945 is still before us: whether man's cherished hopes for progress and peace are to be destroyed by ...

The great question which confronted this body in 1945 is still before us: whether man's cherished hopes for progress and peace are to be destroyed by ...

The great question which confronted this body in 1945 is still before us: whether man's cherished hopes for progress and peace are to be destroyed by ...

The great question which confronted this body in 1945 is still before us: whether man's cherished hopes for progress and peace are to be destroyed by ...