John Kennedy actually said...

"Our present American educational system was founded on the principle that opportunity for education in this country should be available to all--not merely to those who have the ability to pay."

"A free Nation can rise no higher than the standard of excellence set in its schools and colleges."

"Education is the keystone in the arch of freedom and progress."

"It has, in your phrase, been 'in accordance with the time honored conservation principle of effecting the maximum good for the maximum number.'"