~ John F. Kennedy Quotes ~

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History is a relentless master. It has no present only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

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There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

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When written in Chinese the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

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Let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.

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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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War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

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Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

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The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.

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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.

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A man does what he must in spite of personal consequences in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures and that is the basis of all human morality.

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The cost of freedom is always high but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose and that is the path of surrender or submission.

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There are three things which are real: God human folly and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third.

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I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

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I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

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The energy the faith the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.