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Freedom Quotes by John F. Kennedy

64 Freedom quotes by John F. Kennedy

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Kennedy declares that liberty demands sacrifice, saying a nation will pay any price to protect it. He links freedom to caring for the poor and insists that a country is not truly free until every citizen is free. He also frames freedom as a shared destiny that guides a generation.

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Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

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Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

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Unless liberty flourishes in all lands, it cannot flourish in one.

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

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The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.

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Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

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Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their…

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“We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and…

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And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

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The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for…

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Food is strength, and food is peace, and food is freedom, and food is a helping hand to people around the world…

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The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile --…

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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…

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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] ”

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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship,…

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Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation…

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In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour…

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But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing…

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The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always…

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'The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for…

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The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are…

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I ask particularly that those of you who are now in school will prepare yourselves to bear the burden of leadership over…

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As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative…

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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 believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the…

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“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to…

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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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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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All students, members of the faculty, and public officials in both Mississippi and the Nation will be able, it is hoped, to…

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Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward…

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“From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart…

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If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.

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Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.

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While we shall negotiate freely, we shall not negotiate freedom.

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The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

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We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

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The best way to progress is the path of freedom.

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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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