John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

"[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor.[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]"
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"[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor.[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]"
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"If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]"
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"Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future."
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"If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.[Commencement Address at American University, June 10 1963]"
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"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.[Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt, June 26 1963]"
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"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.[Undelivered remarks for Dallas Trade Mart, November 22 1963]"
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"Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.[News conference, April 21 1961]"
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"“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.[Undelivered remarks for Dallas Trade Mart, November 22 1963]”"
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"“Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.[News conference, April 21 1961]”"
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"Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain."
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"We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
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"The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. 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."
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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."
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"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."
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"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings."
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"For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future."
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"Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity."
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"Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security."
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!"
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"Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."
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