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American Quotes by John F. Kennedy
- Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.
- The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
- I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.
- For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans…
- Our national conservation effort must include the complete spectrum of resources: air, water, and land; fuels, energy, and minerals; soils, forests, and forage; fish and…
- We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will talk sense to the American people. But we can hope that…
- There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of…
- I have asked the secretary of the treasury to report by April 1 on whether present tax laws may be stimulating in undue amounts the…
- In those countries where income taxes are lower than in the United States, the ability to defer the payment of U.S. tax by retaining income…
- Expansion and modernization of the nation's productive plant is essential to accelerate economic growth and to improve the international competitive position of American industry An…
- We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a new tax incentive…
- Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal; where every man…
- The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.
- The leadership of the American Legion has not had a constructive thought for the benefit of this country since 1918.
- But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent,…
- That is why the Aethenian law makers so decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. I am asking your help in…
- Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be…
- I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a…
- Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.
- But if the life will not be easy, it will be rich and satisfying. For every young American who participates in the Peace Corps-who works…
- By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick…
- Should I become President...I will not risk American lives...by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the wrong place at…
- American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.
- Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.
- The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are…
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- When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their… — John Avlon
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- If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying. — Irving Babbitt
- Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America. — Joe Baca
- Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day. — Joe Baca
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