My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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John F. Kennedy
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About John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years, and the first Catholic president. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the United States Congress before his presi…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by John F. KennedyIn 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.
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.
The pay is good and I can walk to work.
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.
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.
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
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We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
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.
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.
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.
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…
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and fa…
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.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
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 obligati…
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
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…