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John F. Kennedy
Age: 46 †
Born: 1917
Born: May 29
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
35Th U.S. President
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Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.
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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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Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts - including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state.
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Now let me make it clear that I believe there can only be one defense policy for the United States and that is summed up in the word 'first.' I do not mean first, but. I do not mean first, when. I do not mean first, if. I mean first - period.
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Ask not what your community can do for you ask what your community can not do for anyone else.
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Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.
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Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.
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Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside
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Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
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To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals.
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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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The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.
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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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We support the security of both Israel and her neighbors.
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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.
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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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We had a dog who was named Pushinka, who was given to my father by a Soviet official. And we trained that dog to slide down the slide we had in the back of the White House. Sliding the dog down that slide is probably my first memory.
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The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.
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Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties.
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