John F. Kennedy: “For a closed society is not open to ideas of progress--and a police…”

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For a closed society is not open to ideas of progress--and a police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.

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John F. Kennedy

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Kennedy points out that closed societies hinder progress and agricultural productivity.

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All of us together--this Administration, this Congress, this nation--must forge those answers.

And while no nation has ever faced such a challenge, no nation has ever been so ready to seize the burden and the glory of freedom.

If, on the other hand, we hang back in deference to local economic pressures, we will find ourselves cut off from our major allies.

I speak today in an hour of national peril and national opportunity.

John F. Kennedy: “For a closed society is not open to ideas of progress--and a police state finds that it cannot command the grain to…”