John F. Kennedy quotes - page 23

I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act. I do not speak for my church on public matters - and the church does not speak for me. (John F. Kennedy)
So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. View quote
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Failure has no friends. View quote
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The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership. View quote
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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. View quote
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You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way. View quote
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We want to be first not first if, not first but but first. View quote
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The poet and the politician have this in common their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life. View quote
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In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country. View quote
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You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble. View quote
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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. (John F. Kennedy)
To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. View quote
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We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run. View quote
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I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or their national origin - where every citizen is free to think and speak as he pleases and write and worship as he pleases - and where every citizen is free to vote as he pleases, without instructions from anyone, his employer, the union leader or his clergyman. View quote
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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. View quote
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When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working. View quote
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Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe. When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades. 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. View quote
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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. They deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men. View quote
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We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it. View quote
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That is the kind of America in which I believe. And it represents the kind of Presidency in which I believe - a great office that must neither be humbled by making it the instrument of any one religious group nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding its occupancy from the members of any one religious group. I believe in a President whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the Nation or imposed by the Nation upon him as a condition to holding that office. View quote
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If a beach-head of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved. All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. (John F. Kennedy)
If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing. View quote
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Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent. View quote
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At the start of 2005 the idea of downloading a song to a mobile phone was an idea, by the end of the year it was a reality. View quote
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As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness. View quote
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