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On the recordSeptember 24, 1963
Knowledge is power, a saying 500 years old, but knowledge is power today as never before, not only here in the United States, but the future of the free world depends in the final analysis upon the United States and upon our willingness to reach those decisions on these complicated matters which face us with courage and clarity.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Address at the University of Wyoming

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