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First Quotes by John F. Kennedy
- In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south.
- Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.
- There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do…
- My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And…
- Now let me make it clear that I believe there can only be one defense policy for the United States and that is summed up…
- Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its…
- I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our…
- We had a dog who was named Pushinka, who was given to my father by a Soviet official. And we trained that dog to slide…
- Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention and…
- The first man-made satellite to orbit the earth was named Sputnik. The first living creature in space was Laika. The first rocket to the Moon…
- I am grateful to those Members of Congress who worked so diligently to guide the Equal Pay Act through. It is a first step. It…
- We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!
- Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic deficit of inertia,…
- First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think…
- All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . .…
- And when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of us, recording whether in our brief span of…
- We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.
- First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.
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