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The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.
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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There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce that great past to a trouble of fools. For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.
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I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do I look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test - even by indirection.
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I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no lobby in Washington.
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[War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
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What really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out - not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time.
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Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.
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Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.
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Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.
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Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.
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I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
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The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership.
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Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.
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The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.
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A life of complete leisure is the hardest work of 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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For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe -- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.
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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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