“I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
“I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American!”
Speech (July 17, 1850); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), p. 437
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