John F. Kennedy Quotes
A child miseducated is a child lost.
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Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
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Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
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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.
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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
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A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
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If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
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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.
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The human mind is our fundamental resource.
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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
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It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
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Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
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Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
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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.
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Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
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War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
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Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
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We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.
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The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
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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.
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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.
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Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.
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The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
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The best road to progress is freedom's road.
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The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
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The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
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The pay is good and I can walk to work.
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America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
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A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
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All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"
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And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
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Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
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Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
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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.
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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.
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I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.
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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.
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I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.
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I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.
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I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
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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.
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I'm an idealist without illusions.
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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.
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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.
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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
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Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
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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.
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Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
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Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
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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.
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The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
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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.
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
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My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.
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My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
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Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
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Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
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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.
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Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
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The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
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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!
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There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
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Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
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