We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

— John F. Kennedy. Cited by A.Word.A.Day’s Thought for Today on May 30, 2026. The line is from Kennedy’s 1962 address to the American Newspaper Publishers Association — the same speech that includes the more famous “the very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society” passage.