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In the end, the crucial effort is one of purpose, requiring the fuel of finance but also a torch of idealism.
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John F. Kennedy
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gutenberg.orgJohn F. Kennedy: “In the end, the crucial effort is one of purpose, requiring the fuel of finance but also a torch of idealism.”
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Kennedy emphasizes that achieving meaningful goals requires both financial resources and a strong sense of purpose and idealism.
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For we seek not the worldwide victory of one nation or system but a worldwide victory of man.
Tomorrow it can form the framework for a world of law--a world in which no nation dictates the destiny of another, and in which the vast resources now devoted to destructive means will serve constructive ends.
But now the winds of change appear to be blowing more strongly than ever, in the world of communism as well as our own.
Today we still welcome those winds of change--and we have every reason to believe that our tide is running strong.