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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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.
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Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
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Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
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People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today.
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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.
Source: Sports Illustrated Vol 13, Is. 13 (26-12-1960)― John F. Kennedy -
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible of a final military solution.
Source: Westpoint, 06-06-1962― John F. Kennedy -
The basis of effective government if public confidence.
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The best road to progress is freedom's road.
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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.
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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
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The day before my inauguration President Eisenhower told me, ''You'll find that no easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them.'' I found that hard to believe, but now I know it is true.
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The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
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The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.
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The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
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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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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.
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The human mind is our fundamental resource.
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The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
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