John F. Kennedy

If you face a man's job, find a woman!

— John F. Kennedy

Change is the law of life.

— John F. Kennedy

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

— John F. Kennedy

A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.

— John F. Kennedy

Don't ask 'Why', ask instead, 'Why not'.

— John F. Kennedy

You're in there with me. Personally.

— John F. Kennedy

Peace is a process, a way of solving problems

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Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb.

— John F. Kennedy

Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

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Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

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I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.

— John F. Kennedy

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

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A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats.

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Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.

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Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

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Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential…

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We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of…

— John F. Kennedy

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because…

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... the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was…

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The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to…

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“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961] ”

— John F. Kennedy

The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.

— John F. Kennedy

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

— John F. Kennedy

It is extremely important that adequate provision be made for reasonable levels of income to them, for the care of the children…

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Peaceful circulation has been interupted by barbed wire and concrete blocks. For a city or a people to be truly free, they…

— John F. Kennedy

In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone-and most men save Englishmen despaired of England's life-he [Churchill] mobilized the…

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Our deep spiritual confidence that this nation will survive the perils of today - which may well be with us for decades…

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This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the…

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So let us begin anew -- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always…

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Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the…

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There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats,…

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The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now…

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We also need the provisions in the tax bill that will permit working mothers to increase the deduction from income tax liability…

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The Kennedy Administration's public pronouncements on the matter suggested that the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Castro's Cuba would represent an…

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For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has…

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Peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let…

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To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the…

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In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration, and when peace comes we will gladly convert not our…

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A full scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes...could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well…

— John F. Kennedy