John F. Kennedy Quotes About Inspirational
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We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.
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It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
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For I can assure you that we love our country, not for what it was, though it has always been great - not for what it is, though of this we are deeply proud - but for what it someday can, and, through the efforts of us all, someday will be.
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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.
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We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad.
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Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.
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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.
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And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant, and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity.
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In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!
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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
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We stand today on the edge of a new frontier.
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If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
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The New Frontier of which I speak 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 intend to ask of them.
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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the country, some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.
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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
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My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.
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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
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Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
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I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.
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There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.
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The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
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The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
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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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John F. Kennedy
- Born: May 29, 1917
- Died: November 22, 1963
- Occupation: 35th U.S. President
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