Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 77 |
| AUTHOR: | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–63) |
| QUOTATION: | Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | President This is one of seven inscriptions carved on the walls at the gravesite of John F. Kennedy, Arlington National Cemetery. |
| SUBJECTS: | American people |