“If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist”

— John F. Kennedy

1961, Address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors
Context: If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist-in economic, political, scientific and all the other kinds of struggles as well as the military-then the peril to freedom will continue to rise.

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35th president of the United States of America 1917–1963

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