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On the recordJune 22, 1963
We will keep this free world free until the day comes, as Thomas Jefferson predicted it would, that the disease of liberty, which is catching, spreads throughout the world.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at the City Hall in Bonn.

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