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JFK on sources of political leadership


John F. Kennedy, 1960 Presidential Election Speech, “On the Proper Relationship between the State and it Citizens”


🏛Human dignity = source of national #purpose

🗽Human liberty = source of national action

❤️ Human heart = source of national #compassion

🧠 Human mind = source of our invention and our ideas


“This is not so much a party creed, or a set of fixed platform promises, as it is an attitude of mind and heart—a faith in man's ability through the experiences of his reason and judgment to increase for himself and his fellow man, the amount of justice and freedom and brotherhood which all human life deserves.”


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