
Let us.step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. "My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. "With all of the history of war, and the human race's history unfortunately has been a good deal more war than peace, with nuclear weapons distributed all through the world, and available, and the strong reluctance of any people to accept defeat, I see the possibility in the 1970's of the President of the United States having to face a world in which 15 or 20 or 25 nations may have these weapons." -"The President's News Conference of Ma(107)," Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Arms Control and Disarmament ( Note: Parenthetical numbers in the titles of presidential speeches and news conferences refer to item numbers in the Public Papers of the Presidents.) For more information please contact Have a research question? Ask an Archivist. Kennedy, arranged alphabetically by topic. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museumīelow is a selected list of quotations by John F.
