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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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. KennedyLet 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.
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.
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is th…
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.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It…
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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.
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
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.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
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.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
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 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 …
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
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.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.