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American
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President
May 29
, 1917 -
November 22
, 1963
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Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy
Politics
Future
Past
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy
Peace
Impossible
Will
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
Life
Change
Future
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
John F. Kennedy
Fitness
Body
Important
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
John F. Kennedy
Motivational
Things
Happen
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.
John F. Kennedy
Future
History
Past
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
Memorial Day
Your
Country
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
John F. Kennedy
Wisdom
Knowledge
Ignorance
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
Success
Patriotism
Survival
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy
Inspirational
Gratitude
Appreciation
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Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
John F. Kennedy
Success
Victory
Defeat
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy
Chance
Long
Risks
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy
Wisdom
Opportunity
Crisis
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy
Forgiveness
Your
Enemies
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy
Fear
Never
Us
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
John F. Kennedy
Democracy
Ignorance
Security
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.
John F. Kennedy
Sea
Ocean
Back
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy
Future
Society
Children
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
John F. Kennedy
Great
Achieve
Dare
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
John F. Kennedy
Peace
War
Only
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John F. Kennedy
Education
Truth
Knowledge
A child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy
Education
Lost
Child
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.
John F. Kennedy
History
Freedom
Long
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy
Leadership
Learning
Indispensable
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy
Wisdom
Time
Sun
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
John F. Kennedy
History
Will
Live
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy
Comfort
Opinion
Discomfort
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John F. Kennedy
Tolerance
Commitment
Own
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F. Kennedy
Equality
World
End
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
Life
Change
Future
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John F. Kennedy
Courage
Purpose
Direction
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy
Society
Rich
Poor
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy
Freedom
War
Path
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
Freedom
Growth
Enemy
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy
War
End
Must
We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.
John F. Kennedy
Future
Light
Darkness
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.
John F. Kennedy
God
History
Man
John F. Kennedy War Quotes
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy
Truth
Great
Lie
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
John F. Kennedy
Man
Destiny
Problems
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.
John F. Kennedy
More
Vote
Landslide
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.
John F. Kennedy
Life
Power
Technology
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
John F. Kennedy
Computers
Man
Extraordinary
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.
John F. Kennedy
Truth
Fear
People
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy
Education
Progress
Mind
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
John F. Kennedy
Peace
Time
War
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
John F. Kennedy
Parenting
Grow
Process
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
John F. Kennedy
Peace
Daily
New
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John F. Kennedy
Power
Poetry
Man
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F. Kennedy
Man
Die
Rise
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
John F. Kennedy
Alone
Knowledge
Talent
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John F. Kennedy
Art
Society
Culture
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
John F. Kennedy
Power
War
Corruption
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
John F. Kennedy
Man
Obstacles
Morality
I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.
John F. Kennedy
Man
I Am
Who
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
John F. Kennedy
Fitness
Security
Physical Fitness
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
John F. Kennedy
Science
Stars
Together
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John F. Kennedy
City
Efficiency
Charm
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
John F. Kennedy
Life
War
Men
For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's futures. And we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy
Children
Air
Cherish
I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.
John F. Kennedy
I Am
Happens
President
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