John Kennedy actually said...

Better the occasional faults of a government living in the spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

Context

Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Street Rally, Waterbury, CT

11/05/1960

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