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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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Sincerity is always subject to proof.
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Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.
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As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.
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Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something.
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Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.
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The Republican Party can lead any person to believe that their promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line – no matter how big the lie repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth.
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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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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
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It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.
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There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press.
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This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime
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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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A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.
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Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.
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A tired nation, said David Lloyd George, is a Tory nation, and the United States today cannot afford to be either tired or Tory.
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I think the success of any school can be measured by the contribution the alumni make to our national life.
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I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation, or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.
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It is not our wealth that built our roads, but it is our roads that built our wealth.
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Race has no place in American life or law.
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Democracy may not be perfect, but at least I don't have to build a wall to keep my people in.
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