Quotes by John F. Kennedy with history

John F. Kennedy

American politician

Lived from: 1917 - 1963

Category: Politics Country: United States

Born: 29 may 1917 Died: 22 november 1963

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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 resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

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• The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.

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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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• We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• responsibility
• battleground
• exploitation
• revolution
• generation
• beginning

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