I hope in a difficult and dangerous time in the life of our country that all of us may bring candles to help illuminate our country's way.
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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Michigan State Fair, Detroit, MI
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But there are other troubles besetting the human family. Many of its members live in poverty and misery and despair.
The United States, in fact all of us, love, I suppose, in a sense, lost causes, and on occasion the history of Scotland has been a lost cause.
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