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On the recordSeptember 10, 1962
The effort that we and you are making in common is to defend our countries, defend our peace, defend the vital interests of the free world in the strong belief that in time the disease of liberty, as Thomas Jefferson called it, will be catching in all parts of the world.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks to Allied Students at the Army Guided Missile School, Huntsville, Alabama

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