Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
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- John F. Kennedy
- Source
- John F. Kennedy, speech on 18th May 1963 on the 90th Anniversary Convocation of Vanderbilt University
- Culture / tradition
- American
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