"Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the……" — John F. Kennedy
"Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope."
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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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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
— Saint Augustine
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
— Richard Bach
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
— Francis Bacon
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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
— Roger Bannister
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So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with…
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong…
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
— Alfred Adler
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If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
— Milton Berle
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Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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