Wonder what today's political pundits would say about John F. Kennedy who said:
In my own native state of Massachusetts, the battle for American freedom was begun by the thousands of farmers and tradesmen who made up the Minute Men -- citizens who were ready to defend their liberty at a moment's notice. Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. The cause of liberty, the cause of American, cannot succeed with any lesser effort.
It is this effort and concern which makes up the New Frontier. And it is this effort and concern which will determine the success or failure not only with Administration, but of our nation itself.
-JFK January 29, 1961 Roosevelt Day Commemoration Message
Of course I had to use a web cached copy of the webpage because it was removed from the JFK Library site some time last week. Here's the original link: http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations/Roosevelt-Day-Commemoration-Message.aspx
I've seen many people asking for a source for this so here are a few:
Source: White House Central Subject Files, Box 111, FDR
Other Information Sources:
"Know your Lawmakers" Guns Magazine, April 1960.
"Letter to President John F. Kennedy from the NRA", [NRAcentral.com].
"New Minute Men Urged by Kennedy" New York Times, 30 Jan, 1961, pg. 13.
"Kennedy Says U.S. Needs Minute Men" Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan, 1961, pg. 4.
"Minutemen's Soft-Sell Leader: Robert B. DePugh", New York Times, 12 November 1961, pg. 76..
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