| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 32395 |
| QUOTATION: | We stand today on the edge of a new frontier—the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils, a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.... The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises—it is a set of challenges. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–1963), U.S. Democratic politician, president. Speech, July 13, 1960, at the Democratic Convention, Los Angeles.
Accepting the presidential nomination; Theodore C. Sorensen took credit for drafting this speech, in his biography Kennedy, ch. 6 (1965). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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