"The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are……" — John F. Kennedy
"The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history."
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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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More Complacent Quotes
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As days lengthen into weeks and months and even years of adversity, the hurt grows deeper. The Church cannot hope…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate…
— Pat Summitt
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A complacent player is a lazy player, and a lazy player is a loser.
— Darryl Sutter
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A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical.
— Harold Laski
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I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.
— Barbara Hershey
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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
— Abraham Flexner
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The more I learnt about this cheeky - almost rebellious - company, the more it appealed to me, as it…
— Jonathan Ive
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Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get…
— Blake Griffin
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Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it's this: follow your…
— Cynthia Nixon
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Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear…
— Mark Twain
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I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried…
— Paul Newman
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If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.
— Shelley Morrison
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