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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will hold to one and despise…”

On the recordOctober 16, 1960
No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will hold to one and despise the other.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Speech of Senator John F. Kennedy, Wittenberg College Stadium, Springfield, Ohio

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