“Only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spir…”

“Only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant, and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity.”

— John F. Kennedy

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Title: Wikiquote: John F. Kennedy
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Context

Profiles in Courage (1956), p. 17

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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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