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Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was 'civis Romanus sum.' Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'
John F. Kennedy -
If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
John F. Kennedy
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Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
John F. Kennedy -
We live under majority rule and if that majority is not well educated in its responsibilities, the whole Nation suffers.
John F. Kennedy -
For I can assure you that we love our country, not for what it was, though it has always been great - not for what it is, though of this we are deeply proud - but for what it someday can, and, through the efforts of us all, someday will be.
John F. Kennedy -
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy -
It cannot be surprising that, as resistance within Cuba grows, refugees have been using whatever means are available to return and support their countrymen in the continuing struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties.
John F. Kennedy -
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
John F. Kennedy
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This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for the vigor and vitality of all the activities of the nation, is as old as Western civilization itself.
John F. Kennedy -
In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than in mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.
John F. Kennedy -
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy -
I want to drink a cup of tea to all those Kennedys who went and all those Kennedys who stayed.
John F. Kennedy -
For the unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.
John F. Kennedy -
There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce 'that great past to a trouble of fools.' For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.
John F. Kennedy
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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
John F. Kennedy -
America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
John F. Kennedy -
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
John F. Kennedy -
The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.
John F. Kennedy -
Their platform, made up of left-over Democratic planks, has the courage of our old convictions. Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo - and today there can be no status quo.
John F. Kennedy -
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
John F. Kennedy
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No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
John F. Kennedy -
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
John F. Kennedy -
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
John F. Kennedy -
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy