John F. Kennedy Quotes
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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
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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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This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
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Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
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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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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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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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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
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We must first bring others to see their own true interests better than they do today.
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A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
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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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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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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 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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Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
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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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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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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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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
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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.
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Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility.