John F Kennedy Quotes

When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
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Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it deserves the attention of the United States government and the people.
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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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Don't let it be forgot That once there was a spot -For one brief shining moment That was known as Camelot.
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If we are strong our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak words will be no help.
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Here on earth God's work must surely be our own.
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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 complacent the self-indulgent the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.
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I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
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I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practise law.
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy "Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide."
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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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Peace is a daily a weekly a monthly process gradually changing opinions slowly eroding old barriers quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace the pursuit must go on.
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It takes two to make peace.
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Too often we . . . enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
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We must use time as a tool not as a crutch.
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I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practise law.
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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F Kennedy
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F Kennedy
I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy "Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide."
John F Kennedy
If we cannot now end our differences at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F Kennedy
If we are strong our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak words will be no help.
John F Kennedy
Peace is a daily a weekly a monthly process gradually changing opinions slowly eroding old barriers quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace the pursuit must go on.
John F Kennedy
It takes two to make peace.
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Too often we . . . enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F Kennedy
We must use time as a tool not as a crutch.
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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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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 in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
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I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.
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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 proud of our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. 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. All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1 000 days nor in the life of this administration nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need - not as a call to battle though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out "rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation"- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny poverty disease and war itself. And so my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country . My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
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With a good conscience our only sure reward with history the final judge of our deeds let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.
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Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
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We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
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The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise or due process of law or the Australian ballot.
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All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days nor in the life of this administration nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.
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When we got into office the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
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Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you.
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Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you in life I find.
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There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
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Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
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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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There is in addition to a courage with which men die a courage by which men must live.
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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. A man does what he must- in spite of personal consequences in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality.
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Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need not as a call to battle though embattled we are but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out 'rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation' a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny poverty disease and war itself.
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Everything changes but change itself.
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Change is the law of life.
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The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
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When power leads man toward arrogance poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his experience. When power corrupts poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist. . . faithful to his personal vision of reality becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an offensive state.
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The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait but I appreciate his efforts.
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When power narrows the area of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.
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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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There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
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In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
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Terror is not a new weapon. Throughout history it has been used by those who could not prevail, either by persuasion or example. But inevitably they fail, either because men are not afraid to die for a life worth living, or because the terrorists themselves came to realize that free men cannot be frightened by threats, and that aggression would meet its own response. And it is in the light of that history that every nation today should know, be he friend or foe, that the United States has both the will and the weapons to join free men in standing up to their responsibilities.
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The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose - and is a test to the quality of a nation's civilization.
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I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.
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We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are
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I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased brother's heroic legacy)
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There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texa...s? We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
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