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Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.

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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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Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.
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But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.
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I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of large-scale federal bureaucracies in this administration as well as in others. I do not favor state compulsion when voluntary individual effort can do the job and do it well.
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My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.
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Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, but joined with other free nations, we can ... assist the developing nations to throw off the yoke of poverty.
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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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Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.
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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.
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No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.
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Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.
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A child miseducated is a child lost.
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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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The great free nations of the world must take control of our monetary problems if these problems are not to take control of us.
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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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