QuoteQuest“For I can assure you that we love our country, not for what it was, though it has always been great — not for what it is, though of this we are deeply proud — but for what it someday can, and, through the efforts of us all, someday will be.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: John F. Kennedy
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
"Address at a Luncheon Meeting of the National Industrial Conference Board (33)", (13 February 1961)
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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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