John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I believe that we are going to fail as well as succeed, but I believe…”

On the recordApril 27, 1961

I believe that we are going to fail as well as succeed, but I believe that we are at least going to make the effort.

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Democratic · Massachusetts

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

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I believe that we are going to fail as well as succeed, but I believe that we are at least going to make the effort.”