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John F. Kennedy
Age: 46 †
Born: 1917
Born: May 29
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life.
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I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.
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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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Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.
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Domestic policy can only defeat us foreign policy can kill us.
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For I can assure you that we love our country, not for what it was, though it has always been great - not for what it is, though of this we are deeply proud - but for what it someday can, and, through the efforts of us all, someday will be.
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The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.
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Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]
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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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The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.
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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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Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.
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Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
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I suppose if you could have only one thing, it would be that-energy. Without it, you haven't got a thing.
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This country was founded by men and women who were dedicated or came to be dedicated to two propositions first, a strong religious conviction, and secondly a recognition that this conviction could flourish only under a system of freedom.
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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American's capacity. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
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Nearly forty years ago, a distinguished Prime Minister of this country ... said, 'They may not be angels but they are at least our friends.'* I must say that I do not think that we probably demonstrated in that forty years that we are angels yet, but I hope we have demonstrated that we are at least friends.
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Someone always needs rescuing, yet there's only one person who ever seems to understand you. It's a lot like being Lassie.
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Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
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I strongly believe in Scouting. ... It's a source of great strength to us.
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