John F. Kennedy Quotes About Revolution
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A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough – but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.
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A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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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.
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We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.
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And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord.
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We don't want to be like the leader in the French Revolution who said There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.
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Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.
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A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.
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The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
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A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.
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We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.
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Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power. And this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be part of it-we mean to lead it.
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Sometimes it just amazes me how many people desperately want to protect my personal information. Ten thousand reflections hide the true gem. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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John F. Kennedy
- Born: May 29, 1917
- Died: November 22, 1963
- Occupation: 35th U.S. President
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