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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The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.
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The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises - it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intent to ask of them.
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The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.
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The purpose of education is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
Source: Harvard, 14-06-1956― John F. Kennedy -
The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet.
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The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
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The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.
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There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life
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There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.
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This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.
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Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Source: Press conferentie, 21-04-1961 (na de Bay of Pigs)― John F. Kennedy -
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
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We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.
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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.
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We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
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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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