"I'm an idealist without illusions." — John F. Kennedy

"I'm an idealist without illusions."

— John F. Kennedy

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622 Quotes by John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy has 622 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be…
When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
Only in winter can you tell which trees are truly green. Only when the winds of adversity blow can you…
Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.
There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands,…
Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press…
I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend…
The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.
We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be…
Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard…
In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and…
We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad.

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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded… — Irving Babbitt
I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976.… — Michele Bachmann
Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of… — Geraldine Brooks
The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help… — Joyce Brothers
Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon… — Madeleine Albright
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. — George Carlin
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists. — Hillary Clinton
The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide. — Unknown Author
The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing… — Adolf Hitler
War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and… — Chris Hedges
Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him. — Woodrow Wilson
Idealist: a cynic in the making. — Irving Layton

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