John Kennedy actually said...

I am confident I am talking to the rulers of America, in the sense that all educated men and women have the obligation to accept the discipline of self-government.

Context

Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, University of Illinois Campus, Champaign-Urbana, IL

10/23/1960

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