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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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Brookline
Massachusetts
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.
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I know there is a God - I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it - if he has a place then I am ready - we see the hand.
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Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own.
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If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.
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I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant.
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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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Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.
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