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Don't ask 'Why', ask instead, 'Why not'.

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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And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation – the right to breathe air as nature provided it -- the right of future generations to a healthy existence? (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)
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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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Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.
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We are confronted primarily with a moral issue... whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated.
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I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.
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A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.
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Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
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I have seen in many places housing which has been developed under government influences, but I have never seen any projects in which governments have played their part which have fountains and statues and grass and trees, which are as important to the concept of the home as the roof itself.
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The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.
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If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.
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To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public.
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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 rising tide lifts all the boats.
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probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.
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The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.
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There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
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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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I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.
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A country is as strong, really, as its citizens. And I think that mental and physical health - mental and physical vigor - go hand in hand.
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