Political Quotes

On the recordJune 25, 1963
The scholar, the teacher, the intellectual, have a higher duty than any of the others, for society has trained you to think as well as do.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Free University of Berlin

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