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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 730
AUTHOR: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–63)
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.
SUBJECTS: Government