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On the recordApril 27, 1961
I said in my Inaugural Address that no group of people in any generation since democracy was first developed by the ancient Greeks nearly twenty-four or -five hundred years ago, have ever borne a responsibility as great as ours.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Address in Chicago at a Dinner of the Democratic Party of Cook County

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