John F. Kennedy Quotes

American - President | May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

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Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

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PowerWarCommunismCorruptionNever

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

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My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

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Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

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

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In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

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The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

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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.

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