"The torch has been passed to a new……" — John F. Kennedy

"The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today."

— John F. Kennedy

622 Quotes by John F. Kennedy

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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…
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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