2003/2004: Fall/Winter Audio Recording

The following clips comprise Kennedy’s entire speech.

1. “The powers of the presidency are often described. Its limitations should occasionally be remembered.”
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2. “Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility.”
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3. “The problems which this country now faces are staggering, both at home and abroad.”
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4. “The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable...”
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5. “The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state.”
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6. “I look forward to a great future for America, a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.”
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Audio courtesy of Amherst College Archives & Special Collections.