What we seek to advance, what we seek to develop in all of our colleges and universities, are educated men and women who can bear the burdens of responsible citizenship, who can make judgments about life as it is, and as it must be, and encourage the people to make those decisions which can bring not only prosperity and security, but happiness to the people of the United Sates and those who depend upon it.
—John F. Kennedy, “Address at the University of North Dakota (379),” 25 September 1963
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Apparently we are still seeking men and women who can bear the burdens of responsible citizenship, because I’m not seeing enough of it. Not in Congress, not in the electorate.
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