John F. Kennedy Quotes

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

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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.

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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.

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

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No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

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It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

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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.

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The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

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Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

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The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

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If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

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The pay is good and I can walk to work.

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