John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those…”

On the recordJune 23, 1963

Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

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Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks in Bonn at the Signing of a Charter Establishing the German Peace Corps.

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