QuoteQuest“War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.”
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- Wikiquote: John F. Kennedy
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- reference · Secondary source
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Context
Undated Letter to a Navy friend; also mentioned by William Safire in his "On Language" article "Warrior" in the New York Times rubric Magazines (26 August 2007); also in A Thousand Days : John F. Kennedy in the White House (1965), by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 88
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Kennedy, John F.. (n.d.). Wikiquote: John F. Kennedy. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy
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