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John F. Kennedy Quotes
If art is to
nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to
follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John F. Kennedy
If I had to live
my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife
and a different religion.
John F. Kennedy
If we cannot now
end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for
diversity.
John F. Kennedy
In a very real
sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire
nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
John F. Kennedy
In the long
history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role
of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink
from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy
Israel was not
created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is
the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken
by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of
democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. Kennedy
It is an
unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
John F. Kennedy
It might be said
now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale
degree.
John F. Kennedy
It was absolutely
involuntary. They sank my boat.
John F. Kennedy
Khrushchev reminds
me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the
tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other
ideas.
John F. Kennedy
Leadership and
learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy
Let both sides
seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together
let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap
the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
John F. Kennedy
Let every nation
know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price,
bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe
to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
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 - born in this
century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
John F. Kennedy
Let us never
negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy
Let us not seek
the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer.
Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own
responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy
Let's not talk so
much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.
John F. Kennedy
Man is still the
most extraordinary computer of all.
John F. Kennedy
Mankind must put
an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy
Mankind must put
an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy
Modern cynics and
skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds
of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they
entrust the care of their plumbing.
John F. Kennedy
Mothers all want
their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to
become politicians in the process.
John F. Kennedy
My brother Bob
doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
John F. Kennedy
My father always
told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed
it till now.
John F. Kennedy
My God, in this
job he's got the nerve of a burglar.
John F. Kennedy
Once you say
you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
John F. Kennedy
Our most basic
common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same
air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy
Our problems are
man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be a s big
as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
John F. Kennedy
Our progress as a
nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind
is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy
Peace is a daily,
a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly
eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
John F. Kennedy
Physical fitness
is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the
basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
John F. Kennedy
Politics is like
football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
John F. Kennedy
Sure it's a big
job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.
John F. Kennedy
Tell him, if he
doesn't mind, we'll shake hands.
John F. Kennedy
The basic problems
facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
John F. Kennedy
The best road to
progress is freedom's road.
John F. Kennedy
The cost of
freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path
we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy
The courage of
life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final
moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
John F. Kennedy
The freedom of the
city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, "What's
mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable."
John F. Kennedy
The goal of
education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of
truth.
John F. Kennedy
The great enemy of
the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and
dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy
The great enemy of
the truth is very often not the lie: deliberate, continued, and
dishonest; but the myth: persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy
The greater our
knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
John F. Kennedy
The human mind is
our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy
The ignorance of
one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
John F. Kennedy
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