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John F Kennedy Inspirational Quotes (386)

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.
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A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
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Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth.
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I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.
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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
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I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
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The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or even thermonuclear weapons.
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Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons - new and uncertain nations - new pressures of population and deprivation.
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Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power. And this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be part of it-we mean to lead it.
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Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own.
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If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.
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It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.
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I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
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Real men stay faithful. They don't have time to look for other women because they're too busy looking for new ways to love their own.
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Those [presidents] who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.
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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.
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Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.
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The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.
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Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.
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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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It's only when they join together in a forward movement that this country moves ahead.
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Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.
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Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb.
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The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.
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