John Kennedy said...

Leonardo da Vinci was not only an artist and a sculptor, an architect and a scientist, and a military engineer, an occupation which he pursued, he tells us, in order to preserve the chief gift of nature, which is liberty.

Context

Remarks at the National Gallery of Art Upon Opening the Mona Lisa Exhibition

01/07/1963

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