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Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.
John F. Kennedy
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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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I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act. I do not speak for my church on public matters - and the church does not speak for me.
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Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility.
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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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The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.
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Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.
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Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.
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And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant, and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity.
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The Republican Party can lead any person to believe that their promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line – no matter how big the lie repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth.
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To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public.
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A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.
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The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
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I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.
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Let us make it clear that we will never turn our backs on our steadfast friends in Israel, whose adherence to the democratic way must be admired by all friends of freedom.
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The guiding principle of this Nation has been, is now, and ever shall be IN GOD WE TRUST.
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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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A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.
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Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to illuminate man's place in the universe, and as the source of understanding of man's own nature.
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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
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We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.
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