John F. Kennedy Quotes
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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
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
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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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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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Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
John F. Kennedy
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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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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We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.
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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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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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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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The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
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I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
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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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My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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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.
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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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