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…
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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. KennedyPeace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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.
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 …
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
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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.
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!'
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.
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact …
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.
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.