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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1066
AUTHOR: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–63)
QUOTATION: Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
ATTRIBUTION: President JOHN F. KENNEDY, inaugural address, January 20, 1961.—The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961, p. 1.

This is one of seven inscriptions carved on the walls at the gravesite of John F. Kennedy, Arlington National Cemetery.
SUBJECTS: Liberty