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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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One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.
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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
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I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
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The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.
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Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves.
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The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.
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I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers.. I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors for as a wise man once said: An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors and we expect you to point them out when we miss them.
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I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.
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I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
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Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.
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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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There comes a point where you see no evidence that the carrot and diplomacy are working.
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The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
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I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.
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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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