Kennedy Died

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“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs 29:18.

President John F. Kennedy quoted this passage on the eve of his assassination in Dallas, Texas. Quoted in Theodore C. Sorenson, Kennedy, epilogue (1965)

“A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)