"I realize that there are among us those who are weary of sustaining this continual effort to help
other nations. But I would ask them to look at a map and recognize that many of those whom we help
live on the 'front lines' of the long twilight struggle for freedom—that others are new nations posed
between order and chaos—and the rest are older nations now undergoing a turbulent transition of new
expectations. Our efforts to help them help themselves, to demonstrate and to strengthen the vitality of
free institutions, are small in cost compared to our military outlays for the defense of freedom."
—John F. Kennedy, Special Message to the Congress on Foreign Aid, March 13, 1962
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