John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

"With a good conscience our only sure reward with history the final judge of our deeds let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own."
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"With a good conscience our only sure reward with history the final judge of our deeds let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own."
John F. Kennedy
"I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant."
John F. Kennedy
"Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable."
John F. Kennedy
"The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise or due process of law or the Australian ballot."
John F. Kennedy
"When we got into office the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were."
John F. Kennedy
"All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days nor in the life of this administration nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet."
John F. Kennedy
"Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you."
John F. Kennedy
"Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you in life I find."
John F. Kennedy
"There is in addition to a courage with which men die a courage by which men must live."
John F. Kennedy
"Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need not as a call to battle though embattled we are but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out 'rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation' a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny poverty disease and war itself."
John F. Kennedy
"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. A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all morality."
John F. Kennedy
"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. A man does what he must- in spite of personal consequences in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality."
John F. Kennedy
"The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable."
John F. Kennedy
"Everything changes but change itself."
John F. Kennedy
"Change is the law of life."
John F. Kennedy
"When power narrows the area of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence."
John F. Kennedy
"The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait but I appreciate his efforts."
John F. Kennedy
"When power leads man toward arrogance poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his experience. When power corrupts poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist. . . faithful to his personal vision of reality becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an offensive state."
John F. Kennedy
"We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes."
John F. Kennedy
"There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."
John F. Kennedy
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