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On the recordMay 7, 1961
The great inner resource of freedom, the resource which has kept the world's oldest democracy continually young and vital, the resource which has always brought us our greatest exploits in time of our greatest need, is the very fact of the open society.
Said by
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Address at the 39th Annual Convention of the National Association of Broadcasters.

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