"To halt this offensive buildup, a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba is bei…"

"My fellow citizens: let no one doubt that this is a difficult and dangerous effort on which we have set out. No one c…"

"My letter to Castro concluded an episode of world history in which, bringing the world to the brink of atomic war, we…"

"If... we are attacked, we will defend ourselves. I repeat, we have sufficient means with which to defend ourselves; w…"

"We must respond to this reckless gesture with a joint decision. Otherwise, the Soviet Union will move on to ever more…"

"It is, therefore, understandable that it deeply displeases the conscience of the Brazilian people any form of interve…"

"Fifty years ago, the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster. During the standoff, US…"

"Khrushchev had backed off; he had not only accepted the blockade but also removed his missiles, under threat of attac…"

"What we had been doing, on recommendations of the What we had been doing, on recommendations of the ExComm, included …"

"It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the West…"