Let all nations know that during this administration our lines of
communication will be open.
We seek an open world--open to ideas, open to the exchange of
goods and people--a world in which no people, great or small, will
live in angry isolation.
We cannot expect to make everyone our friend, but we can try to
make no one our enemy.
Those who would be our adversaries, we invite to a peaceful
competition--not in conquering territory or extending dominion,
but in enriching the life of man.
As we explore the reaches of space, let us go to the new worlds
together--not as new worlds to be conquered, but as a new
adventure to be shared.
With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the
burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift up
the poor and the hungry.
But to all those who would be tempted by weakness, let us leave no
doubt that we will be as strong as we need to be for as long as we
need to be.
Over the past twenty years, since I first came to this Capital as
a freshman Congressman, I have visited most of the nations of the
world.
I have come to know the leaders of the world, and the great
forces, the hatreds, the fears that divide the world.
I know that peace does not come through wishing for it--that there
is no substitute for days and even years of patient and prolonged
diplomacy.
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