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History Quotes by John F. Kennedy
- History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.
- If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.
- With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we…
- Events of October 1962 indicated, as they had all through history, that control of the sea means security. Control of the seas can mean peace.…
- If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.
- Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and human…
- The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples.…
- The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.
- With all of the history of war, and the human race's history unfortunately has been a good deal more war than peace, with nuclear weapons…
- 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…
- All problems, depressions, wars, disasters, assassinations, all of them were planned, caused, instigated, and implemented by the International Bankers and their attempt to establish a…
- Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than…
- American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.
- Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a free and peaceful…
- My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
- Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has…
- If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
- History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept…
- We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
- All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin…
- We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
- In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.…
- I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were…
- There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not…
- 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…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough