John F. Kennedy

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It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. 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.
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
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.
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.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The pay is good and I can walk to work.
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
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.
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
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.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
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.
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!
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.
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
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.
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.
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
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.
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.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
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.
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
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.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
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.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
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.
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
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.
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.

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