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On the recordOctober 18, 1963
Let us resolve to be the masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicion and emotion.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Address at the University of Maine

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