Children Quotes by John F. Kennedy

31 Children quotes by John F. Kennedy

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Kennedy’s 31 reflections on children carry his classic optimism and call to responsibility, urging the young to shape a brighter tomorrow. The words echo his belief that tomorrow’s leaders are forged today.

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

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There's a plot in this country to enslave every man, woman, and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I…

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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…

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Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave.

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Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.

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Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

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Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to…

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Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our…

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For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the…

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For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation.…

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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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We must live our lives in such a way that our children, and their children after them, will form a natural and…

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There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball…

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Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the…

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The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmonious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. And so did the most…

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I think when we talk about corporal punishment, and we have to think about our own children, and we are rather reluctant,…

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The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all…

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It is for these reasons that I believe we must expand day-care centers and provide other assistance which I have recommended to…

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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…

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It is with great satisfaction that I have signed into law the Social Security Amendments of 1961. They represent an additional step…

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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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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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Few nations do more than the United States to assist their least fortunate citizens-to make certain that no child, no elderly or…

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The lower the family income, the higher the probability that the mother must work. Today, 1 out of 5 of these working…

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Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too…

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Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his…

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Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage…

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I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that…

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I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men…

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Let us not be blind to our differences-but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by…

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If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send…

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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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