John F. Kennedy
Quotations
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“My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” -John F. Kennedy
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“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
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“I’m always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.” -John F. Kennedy
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“I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.” -John F. Kennedy
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“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.” -John F. Kennedy
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“We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.” -John F. Kennedy
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“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” -John F. Kennedy
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“To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.” -John F. Kennedy
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“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.” -John F. Kennedy
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“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.” -John F. Kennedy
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“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
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“I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.” -John F. Kennedy
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“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
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“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
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“Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.” -John F. Kennedy
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“I’m always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.” -John F. Kennedy
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“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.” -John F. Kennedy
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“The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.” -John F. Kennedy
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“I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.” -John F. Kennedy
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“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
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“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.” -John F. Kennedy
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“We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.” -John F. Kennedy
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“There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.” -John F. Kennedy
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“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” -John F. Kennedy
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“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” -John F. Kennedy
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“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” -John F. Kennedy
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“I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.” -John F. Kennedy
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“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
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“We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.” -John F. Kennedy
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“There are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!” -John F. Kennedy
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“It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.” -John F. Kennedy
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“My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.” -John F. Kennedy
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“The pay is good and I can walk to work.” -John F. Kennedy
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“Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.” -John F. Kennedy
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“History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.” -John F. Kennedy
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“We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” -John F. Kennedy
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“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.” -John F. Kennedy
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“Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.” -John F. Kennedy
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“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.” -John F. Kennedy
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“It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.” -John F. Kennedy
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“My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.” -John F. Kennedy
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“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
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“For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.” -John F. Kennedy
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“It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.” -John F. Kennedy
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“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
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Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. – John F. Kennedy
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We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. – John F. Kennedy
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