"There is an old saying that the course……" — John F. Kennedy
"There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race."
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John F. Kennedy
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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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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we…
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The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
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Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels…
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Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all…
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There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them.…
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Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.
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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe…
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As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to…
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Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
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The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves…
— John Playfair
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise…
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