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Ideology
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The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Knowledge
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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Leadership
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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Liberty
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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Life
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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life
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Life is unfair.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Media
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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.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Military, the
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People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
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We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Oceans
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I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it, we are going back from whence we came.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Remarks at the Australian Ambassador's Dinner for the America's Cup Crews, The Breakers, Newport, Rhode Island, September 14, 1962
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Opportunity
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Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Optimism
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When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Patriotism
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... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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 In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility
http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres56.html precedents to this quotation can be found under Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Warren Harding, and Kahlil Gibran
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
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Peace
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But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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People
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We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Planning
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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Poetry
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When power leads man towards 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.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Politics
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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. They deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Books by and about John Fitzgerald Kennedy