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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “We are prepared to meet our obligations, but we can only defend the freedom of those who are determined to be free…”

On the recordApril 27, 1961
We are prepared to meet our obligations, but we can only defend the freedom of those who are determined to be free themselves.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

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

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