Political Quotes

On the recordMarch 19, 1963
Second is the right of every individual citizen to political liberty, the right to speak his own views, to worship God in his own way, to select the government which rules him, and to reject it when it no longer serves the need of a nation.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at the University of Costa Rica in San Jose

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