John F. Kennedy
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The best road to progress is freedom's road.
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Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
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.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
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.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.
But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
People hurt you again if you can't give them any more.
By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.
It's not easy to define poetry.
We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.
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