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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political veiwpoint—Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fa...
By John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern the Great Powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by wind and water and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war--or war will put an end to mankind.
By John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.
By John Fitzgerald Kennedy
There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.
By John Fitzgerald Kennedy
You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.
By John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
By John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
By John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
By John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The day before my inauguration President Eisenhower told me, You'll find that no easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them. I found that hard to believe, but now I know it is true.
By John Fitzgerald Kennedy
As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.
By John Fitzgerald 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
By John Fitzgerald Kennedy
World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.
By John Fitzgerald Kennedy
... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
By John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.
By John Fitzgerald Kennedy
There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press.
By John Fitzgerald 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, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.
By John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
By John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.
By John Fitzgerald Kennedy
True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.
By John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I know there is a God--and I see a storm coming; if He has a place for me, I believe that I am ready.
By John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American's capacity. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
By John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A man does what he must -- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers -- and this is the basis of all human morality.
By John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ' crisis .' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
By John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.
By John Fitzgerald Kennedy