John F. Kennedy quotes - page 14

The best road to progress is freedom's road. (John F. Kennedy)
The pay is good and I can walk to work. View quote
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Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security. View quote
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We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats. View quote
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We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. View quote
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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. View quote
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A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten. View quote
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America has tossed its cap over the wall of space. View quote
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Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole. View quote
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The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy. View quote
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Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace. (John F. Kennedy)
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust. View quote
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Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. View quote
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No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle. View quote
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In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there. View quote
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Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. View quote
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The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just. View quote
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I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant. View quote
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The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. View quote
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Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place. View quote
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It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree. (John F. Kennedy)
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. View quote
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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. View quote
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We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. View quote
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I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. View quote
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