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Long Quotes by John F. Kennedy
- Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other obligations,…
- Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though…
- We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may…
- We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.
- It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues…
- It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by…
- I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States…
- 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…
- So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation…
- The Kennedy Administration's public pronouncements on the matter suggested that the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Castro's Cuba would represent an unacceptable strategic threat…
- For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled…
- And lastly, Chairman Khrushchev has compared the United States to a worn-out runner living on its past performance, and stated that the Soviet Union would…
- The deadly arms race, and the huge resources it absorbs, have too long overshadowed all else we must do. We must prevent that arms race…
- There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
- 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.…
- Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught…
- What really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out -…
- The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require…
- If we could ever competitively, at a cheap rate, get fresh water from saltwater, ..(this) would be in the long-range interests of humanity which could…
- Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century Florence. Goethe stands…
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