John F. Kennedy Quotes
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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 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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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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Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
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The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
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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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We celebrate the past to awaken the future.
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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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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 live under majority rule and if that majority is not well educated in its responsibilities, the whole Nation suffers.
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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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We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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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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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
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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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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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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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And Prince Bismarck was even more specific. One third, he said, of the students of German universities broke down from overwork, another third broked down from dissipation, and the other third ruled Germany.
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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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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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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.