" Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. "

John F. Kennedy US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" 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. "

John F. Kennedy US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. "

John F. Kennedy US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. "

John F. Kennedy US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. "

John F. Kennedy US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. "

John F. Kennedy US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. "

John F. Kennedy US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. "

John F. Kennedy, speech at The American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963 US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. "

John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961 US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. "

John F. Kennedy, speech at Vanderbilt University, May 18, 1963 US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. "

John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963 US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. "

John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, January 20, 1961 US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation

" All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. "

John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, 1961 US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. "

John F. Kennedy US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. "

John F. Kennedy US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" 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, proud of our ancient heritage, and 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, at home and around the world! "

John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 1961 US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. "

John F. Kennedy, speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963 US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie–delierate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth persistent, peruasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. "

John F. Kennedy US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. "

John F. Kennedy US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. "

John F. Kennedy US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. "

John F. Kennedy US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. "

John F. Kennedy, Inaugural address, January 20, 1961 US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" Victory has a thousand fathers; defeat is an orphan. "

John F. Kennedy, “A Thousand Days,” by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]., p289. Comment made by JFK in the aftermath of the fai US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. — (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.) "

John F. Kennedy, “A Thousand Days,” by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965] US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art. "

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

" Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable. "

John F. Kennedy US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. "

John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961 US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too. "

John F. Kennedy US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

" If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. "

John F Kennedy

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