John F. Kennedy Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
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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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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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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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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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This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
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The human mind is our fundamental resource.
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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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Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
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We must first bring others to see their own true interests better than they do today.
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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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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 obligation of trust.
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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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It was in order to avoid any incorrect assessment on the part of your Government with respect to Cuba that I publicly stated that if certain developments in Cuba took place, the United States would do whatever must be done to protect its own security and that of its allies.