Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1189
AUTHOR:
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–63)
QUOTATION:
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today’s military rejects include tomorrow’s hard core unemployed.
ATTRIBUTION:
President JOHN F. KENNEDY, statement on the need for training or rehabilitation of Selective Service rejectees, September 30, 1963.—Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963, p. 753.
