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On the recordJanuary 14, 1963
Above all, we must both demonstrate and develop the affirmative power of the democratic ideal--remembering always that nations are great, not for what they are against, but what they are for.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Magazine Article \Where We Stand.\

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