"Once you say you're going to settle for……" — John F. Kennedy
"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life."
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622 Quotes by John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy has 622 quotes on this site.
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We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be…
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When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
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Only in winter can you tell which trees are truly green. Only when the winds of adversity blow can you…
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Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.
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There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands,…
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Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press…
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I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend…
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The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.
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We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be…
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Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard…
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In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and…
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We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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