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Nobody could say more with a few words than the late John F. Kennedy. Here are just a few of his more memorable moments as expressed in his words.
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
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.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
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.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
I'm an idealist without illusions.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
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.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
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.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a
place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger.
This tiger has other ideas.
John F. Kennedy
Leadership and learning are indispensable to
each other.
John F. Kennedy
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
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
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
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us
never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy
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
Man is still the most extraordinary
computer of all.
John F. Kennedy
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts
an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in
paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage
than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
John F.
Kennedy
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
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government
- he promised Dad he'd go straight.
John F. Kennedy
My father always told me that all businessmen
were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.
John F.
Kennedy
My fellow Americans, ask not what
your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
John F.
Kennedy
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
Now we have a problem in making our power
credible, and Vietnam is the place.
John F. Kennedy
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
John F. Kennedy
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of
physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
John F.
Kennedy
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
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be
solved by man. And man can be a s big as he wants. No problem of human destiny
is beyond human beings.
John F. KennedyÂ
A child miseducated is a child lost.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
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.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
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.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
John F. KennedyÂ
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"Â
John F. KennedyÂ
America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
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.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
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.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
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.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
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.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
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.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
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.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!Â
John F. KennedyÂ
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
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.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
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.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For 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.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
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.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.Â
John F. KennedyÂ
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.Â
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