Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
730
AUTHOR:
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (191763)
QUOTATION:
Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure. The outcome is by no means certain.
ATTRIBUTION:
President JOHN F. KENNEDY, annual message to Congress on the State of the Union, January 30, 1961.Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961, p. 19.