Political Quotes

On the recordMarch 24, 1963
It has proved, perhaps, somewhat more difficult to split the atom politically than it has been to split it scientifically.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Remarks to the Faculty and Students of the French Institute of High Studies for National Defense.

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