"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."

Kennedy, John F. on Destiny
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"People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today."

Kennedy, John F. on Draft
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"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living."

Kennedy, John F. on Draft
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"It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours."

Kennedy, John F. on Ecology
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"Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance."

Kennedy, John F. on Economy and Economics
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"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation."

Kennedy, John F. on Education
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"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."

Kennedy, John F. on Education
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"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

Kennedy, John F. on Effort
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"In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside."

Kennedy, John F. on Effort
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"I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide."

Kennedy, John F. on Elections
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"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

Kennedy, John F. on Enemies
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"Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security."

Kennedy, John F. on Exercise
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"We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living."

Kennedy, John F. on Exercise
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"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life."

Kennedy, John F. on Expectation
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"The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways."

Kennedy, John F. on Farming and Farmers
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"Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate."

Kennedy, John F. on Fear
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"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it."

Kennedy, John F. on Freedom
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"The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion."

Kennedy, John F. on Freedom
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"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."

Kennedy, John F. on Freedom
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"To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."

Kennedy, John F. on Aid and Assistance
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"Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. this is not the case."

Kennedy, John F. on America
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"The basis of effective government if public confidence."

Kennedy, John F. on Government
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"True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope."

Kennedy, John F. on Happiness
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"I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit."

Kennedy, John F. on Human Spirit
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"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."

Kennedy, John F. on Humankind
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"The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds."

Kennedy, John F. on Knowledge
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"It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won."

Kennedy, John F. on Leaders and Leadership
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"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

Kennedy, John F. on Liberty
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"There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life"

Kennedy, John F. on Life and Living
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"We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it."

Kennedy, John F. on Life and Living
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"Life is unfair."

Kennedy, John F. on Life and Living
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"We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed."

Kennedy, John F. on Arms Race
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"There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press."

Kennedy, John F. on Media
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"The human mind is our fundamental resource."

Kennedy, John F. on Mind
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"A man does what he must -- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers -- and this is the basis of all human morality."

Kennedy, John F. on Obstacles
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"Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity."

Kennedy, John F. on Opportunity
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"When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working."

Kennedy, John F. on Optimism
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"... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

Kennedy, John F. on Patriotism
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"But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings."

Kennedy, John F. on Peace
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"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war."

Kennedy, John F. on Peace
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