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Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.
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 was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.
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Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.
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The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
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World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor - it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.
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The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
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For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.
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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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I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice.
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There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.
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