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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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I think it is most appropriate that the President of the United States, whose business place is in Washington, should come to this city and participate in these rallies. Because the business of the Government is the business of the people - and the people are right here.
John F. Kennedy
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Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.
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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 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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In 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.
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To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of art - this is one of the fascinating challenges of these days.
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While we proceed to safeguard our national interests, let us also safeguard human interests. And the elimination of war and arms is clearly in the interest of both.
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Prince Bismarck once said that one-third of the students of German universities broke down from overwork; another third broke down from dissipation, and the other third ruled Germany.
John F. Kennedy
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As apt and applicable as the Declaration of Independence is today, we would do well to honor that other historic document drafted in this hall - the Constitution of the United States. For it stressed not independence but interdependence - not the individual liberty of one but the indivisible liberty of all.
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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy -
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy -
I must say that though other days may not be so bright, as we look toward the future, that the brightest days will continue to be those we spent with you here in Ireland.
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There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
John F. Kennedy -
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
John F. Kennedy
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Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.
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The future of any country which is dependent upon the will and wisdom of its citizens is damaged, and irreparably damaged, whenever any of its children is not educated to the full extent of his talent, from grade school through graduate school.
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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.
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Civilization, it was once said, is a race between education and catastrophe - and we intend to win that race for education.
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I have seen in many places housing which has been developed under government influences, but I have never seen any projects in which governments have played their part which have fountains and statues and grass and trees, which are as important to the concept of the home as the roof itself.'
John F. Kennedy -
Now, in the thermonuclear age, any misjudgment on either side about the intentions of the other could rain more devastation in several hours than has been wrought in all the wars of human history.
John F. Kennedy
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The strength of the alliance on which our security depends is dependent in turn on our willingness to meet our commitments to them.
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Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.
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It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
John F. Kennedy -
Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
John F. Kennedy