John F. Kennedy Quotes
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I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
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We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.
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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
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This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
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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.
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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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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
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There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.
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Chronic disputes which divert precious resources from the needs of the people or drain the energies of both sides serve the interests of no one - and the badge of responsibility in the modern world is a willingness to seek peaceful solutions.
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We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of a worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth - but neither shall we shrink from that risk any time it must be faced.
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We must first bring others to see their own true interests better than they do today.
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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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Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
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We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
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History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
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Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
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We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
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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.
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Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
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My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.
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Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
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A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
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Only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant, and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity.