War Quotes by John F. Kennedy

65 War quotes by John F. Kennedy

Kennedy looks to the United Nations as a hopeful way to keep peace. He says America will never start a war and that his generation wants a world without hate. He also mentions that no color or rank should matter on the battlefield.

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The mere absence of war is not peace.

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The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.

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You're in there with me. Personally.

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[War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

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The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

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It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

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

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Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.

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The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.

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In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.

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Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

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Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

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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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Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.

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We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

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War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

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No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored…

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My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way…

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Should I become President...I will not risk American lives...by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at 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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The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we…

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The American presidency will demand more than ringing manifestos issued from the rear of the battle. It will demand that the President…

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So let us here resolve that Dag Hammarskjold did not live, or die, in vain. Let us call a truce to terror.…

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Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our…

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Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern…

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We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and…

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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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Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call…

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I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the…

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“Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be…

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Bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. Weapons of war must be abolished before…

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“Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle,…

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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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“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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Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

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War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

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

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We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon

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If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.

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“We, in this country, in this generation, are - by destiny rather than by choice - the watchmen on the walls of…

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