American people Quotes by John F. Kennedy

13 American people quotes by John F. Kennedy

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Kennedy’s iconic optimism is distilled into 13 concise lines about the nation’s citizens. The set serves as a quick spark of his hopeful rhetoric and call to public service.

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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…

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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

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The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do…

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I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge…

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“We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable." [ The Berlin Crisis: Radio and…

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But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the…

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We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will talk sense to the American people. But we…

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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation…

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That is why the Aethenian law makers so decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. I am asking…

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“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation…

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No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or…

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I believe the American people are more concerned with a man's views and abilities than with the church to which he belongs.…

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Members of the Congress, the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress. We are all trustees for the…

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We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils…

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

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We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests.

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Someone always needs rescuing, yet there's only one person who ever seems to understand you. It's a lot like being Lassie.

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Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other…

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Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

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There comes a point where you see no evidence that the carrot and diplomacy are working.

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Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

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We have some of the most influential Members of Congress here today, and I do hope that we can get this appropriation for these…

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Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.

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This is one country. It has become one country because all of us and all the people who came here had an equal chance…

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“The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent…

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Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

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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 us not…

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