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EVAN THOMAS Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY The purpose of life is to live, learn, love, to contribute in some way to making things better.Striv...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of ...
JEFFREY TOOBIN She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING As Wyatt explains, it's clearly John F. Kennedy. But he also was reminded of Robert Kennedy when he ...
ANN SCANLON You must step forward, Arutha. You will never be the man for whom you were named, and you will never...
RAYMOND E. FEIST I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday eve...
JACK MCDEVITT I've been working with them for a couple years and a couple of projects. Essentially Robert F. Kenne...
RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read th...
JULIA ROBERTS What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read t...
JULIA ROBERTS I think we can do better. That is what Robert Kennedy always said. I think we can do better too. Won...
PAUL WELLSTONE To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... Each of these three young people -- Lauren Bessette, Carolyn
Bessette Kennedy and John F. Kenne...
FAMILY TREE The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Nobody understood how to use television for his own purposes better than Nixon, despite his poor sho...
MICHAEL KORDA One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES The last of the sniper teams dispatched by Robert Kennedy in 1963 to assassinate Fidel Castro were c...
DREW PEARSON Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
PROVERB Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY In other words, the very man Robert Kennedy recruited to kill Fidel Castro hired his brother's murde...
WILFRIED HUISMANN In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
FABRIZIO MOREIRA This is a pretty high-priced policy, ... It depends how nervous you are about life. A wedding can ge...
BOB HUNTER This is a pretty high-priced policy. It depends how nervous you are about life. A wedding can get ca...
BOB HUNTER [F]ew things loves better Than to abhor himself-- . . .
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Human sympathy has its limits.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD We hope (this program) will inspire others to become involved in some type of volunteer work. That w...
BILL ROBERTS The way to know life is to love many things.
VINCENT VAN GOGH The purpose of life is to emit positive vibrations in every direction in every way.
AMIT RAY Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the ...
SIMONE ELKELES Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of ...
DAVID KAY Strive to be a person of action, good deeds and a willing vessel of hope.
GERMANY KENT Believe me, people do change and they change often and many times through their lifetime. However, d...
ROBIN SACREDFIRE The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Some people awake each morning dreading the day looking for the negatives in their lives and in othe...
MARK W. BOYER There is power, value, happiness and fulfillment in a life of purpose.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
CYRIL CONNOLLY How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C. Do yourself a favor instead of waking up and telling yourself that it's another boring day at work o...
ELIZABETH ANN GREY The purpose of LIFE is to be HAPPY. And. To LIVE your LIFE in your own way to INSPIRE others to LIVE...
LORRIN L. LEE Dare to seize and make the most of all opportunities that life bring to your path.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI The meaning to life is to have a meaning in life and the purpose of life is to have a purpose.
ANDONI GARCIA The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
RAINER MARIA RILKE The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things
RAINER MARIA RILKE I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .
DAVID NIVEN The silliest way to waste your life is to decide your main goal and purpose in life is being rich.
CARL WHITE She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s...
ELIZABETH WINDER I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
RICHARD YATES The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it i...
KEN LIVINGSTONE Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH so many people live and they only live and die; so many people live and they truly live and die
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
VICTOR SHAMAS Occupy your thoughts with purpose and you will be so busy pursuing a meaningful future there will be...
CARLOS WALLACE If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us...
ANTHONY LICCIONE The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK The work I did on 'Killing Kennedy' was very meticulous and, in some ways, actually tedious....
KELLY MASTERSON In life, we always try to look for things in life to be an example when we try to describe a meaning...
GARY F EVANS... The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To contribute to the world in your own way, live a life that inspires other to live their lives in t...
LORRIN L. LEE We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
KAREN TODD SCARPULLA More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. -James F. Byrnes.
JAMES F. BYRNES That was a good way to end things. [Today] is our better day because we have some of our better peop...
GREGG TROY I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible. . . .
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Sometimes best things in life turns out to be worst and teach us lessons; lessons limited to the min...
SAURABH OBEROI Break the cycle of your damaged life. The only way to make a better life is to change the rhythm thr...
AVINA CELESTE I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best.
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT I did meet Sen. Robert Kennedy, and it taught me something about political charisma.
MICHAEL KORDA The greatest purpose in life, the greatest achievement one could ever have in life, the greatest sat...
OMOAKHUANA ANTHONIA When God chooses you to deliver a message, to have a purpose, no one and nothing can reverse the cou...
CARLOS WALLACE Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Our main purpose of life is to be happy. Happiness is in simplicity, and the most amazing things abo...
DEBASISH MRIDHA In some strange way, this was meant to be.
JOEL GRETSCH Set out with some definite purpose in life and accomplish that purpose. There is little that the hum...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug...
GARY F EVANS... I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.
FAROOQ ABDULLAH

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ROBERT F. KENNEDY Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy.
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ROBERT F. KENNEDY We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, a...
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ROBERT F. KENNEDY Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we kno...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wr...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the condit...
ROBERT KENNEDY I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, basebal...
ROBERT KENNEDY Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of conte...
ROBERT KENNEDY Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'
ROBERT KENNEDY I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnso...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the t...
ROBERT KENNEDY Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty,...
ROBERT KENNEDY A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can...
ROBERT KENNEDY If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have t...
ROBERT KENNEDY Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedo...
ROBERT KENNEDY Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and...
ROBERT KENNEDY To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and min...
ROBERT KENNEDY I am ashamed to report that my father, who is 73, has never been beaten by any of his four sons in g...
ROBERT KENNEDY Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Our scientists grapple with the difficulties of placing a man on the moon, but the immediately troub...
ROBERT KENNEDY American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our cult...
ROBERT KENNEDY Within the United States, we have put great emphasis upon political freedoms. Because it has been ou...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the long run, a flexible sentencing procedure which works to rehabilitate offenders offers the be...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries. It is the natural co...
ROBERT KENNEDY The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and ana...
ROBERT KENNEDY Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty bu...
ROBERT KENNEDY I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about i...
ROBERT KENNEDY The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
ROBERT KENNEDY Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in...
ROBERT KENNEDY I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because...
ROBERT KENNEDY When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them s...
ROBERT KENNEDY Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of soc...
ROBERT KENNEDY The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Commu...
ROBERT KENNEDY There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousin...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their cour...
ROBERT KENNEDY Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
ROBERT KENNEDY The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking some...
ROBERT KENNEDY We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, wh...
ROBERT KENNEDY I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as t...
ROBERT KENNEDY From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way o...
ROBERT KENNEDY Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a ste...
ROBERT KENNEDY In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can di...
ROBERT KENNEDY We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic p...
ROBERT KENNEDY But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as a...
ROBERT KENNEDY The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving th...
ROBERT KENNEDY The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental...
ROBERT KENNEDY People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I sha...
ROBERT KENNEDY The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever lan...
ROBERT KENNEDY No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the ...
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system ...
ROBERT KENNEDY One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely bec...
ROBERT KENNEDY Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th...
ROBERT KENNEDY Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
ROBERT KENNEDY Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
ROBERT KENNEDY When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest busi...
ROBERT KENNEDY The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the worl...
ROBERT KENNEDY Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno...
ROBERT KENNEDY I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ...
ROBERT KENNEDY If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
ROBERT KENNEDY Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
ROBERT KENNEDY Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's...
ROBERT KENNEDY Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividi...
ROBERT KENNEDY Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of i...
ROBERT KENNEDY If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community ge...
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our lear...
ROBERT KENNEDY All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our t...
ROBERT KENNEDY We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustrati...
ROBERT KENNEDY One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
ROBERT KENNEDY The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. T...
ROBERT KENNEDY The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the co...
ROBERT KENNEDY Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have oft...
ROBERT KENNEDY Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of governm...
ROBERT KENNEDY Tolerating organized crime promotes the cheap philosophy that everything is a racket. It promotes cy...
ROBERT KENNEDY One of the primary purposes of civilization - and certainly its primary strength - is the guarantee ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our he...
ROBERT KENNEDY There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Unions, by and large, are democratic organizations with freely chosen leaders and policies determine...
ROBERT KENNEDY Communism counts its opportunities in terms of decades - not of weeks. Its means of aggression consi...
ROBERT KENNEDY The hardest problems of all in law enforcement are those involving a conflict of law and local custo...
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ROBERT KENNEDY Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portio...
ROBERT KENNEDY Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligatio...
ROBERT KENNEDY Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way ...
ROBERT KENNEDY One can find a squalid America as easily as a scenic America; a bitter, hopeless America as easily a...
ROBERT KENNEDY We in the United States believe in the protection of minorities; we recognize the contributions that...
ROBERT KENNEDY We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men w...
ROBERT KENNEDY Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
ROBERT KENNEDY America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity - the very diversity which our heritage of r...
ROBERT KENNEDY In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nati...
ROBERT KENNEDY Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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ROBERT KENNEDY When I was counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee, about 25% of the important leads which our comm...
ROBERT KENNEDY Yesterday, we fought wars which destroyed cities. Today, we are concerned with avoiding a war which ...
ROBERT KENNEDY I don't believe newspaper reporters can substitute for a district attorney, but a newspaper has ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us wh...
ROBERT KENNEDY Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the tr...
ROBERT KENNEDY What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been s...
ROBERT KENNEDY The tyranny of Communism is as old as the Pharaohs and the Pyramids - that the State stands above al...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human a...
ROBERT KENNEDY We know that freedom has many dimensions. It is the right of the man who tills the land to own the l...
ROBERT KENNEDY President Kennedy's election was such an enlargement. It expanded religious freedom to include t...
ROBERT KENNEDY The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the Ameri...
ROBERT KENNEDY The history of antitrust law enforcement shows that successful antitrust prosecutions have often str...
ROBERT KENNEDY Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compa...
ROBERT KENNEDY In government, our chief executives have been lawyers. The great majority of our cabinets and congre...
ROBERT KENNEDY Nothing is more false than the notion that the triumph of Communism is inevitable or that the Commun...
ROBERT KENNEDY There's a way to log many of these rainforests without destroying them, to do it sustainably. And we...
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ROBERT KENNEDY You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
ROBERT KENNEDY This is not about character assassination, ... This is about questioning the ideology of a person wh...
ROBERT KENNEDY It really broke him up. Those experiences have had a profound impact on me. It's just so striking wh...
ROBERT KENNEDY The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatn...
ROBERT KENNEDY I've talked to students from Ivy League colleges who don't know their professors well enough to ask ...
ROBERT KENNEDY All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times...
ROBERT KENNEDY The way it works is that if I bring another partner to the table, I maintain control of the account....
ROBERT KENNEDY All attempts at mutual education are important to help us grow. It widens our vision.
ROBERT KENNEDY We are still evaluating what this decision means and what the dollar effect is on the state. But it'...
ROBERT KENNEDY I think it belongs to the family and we can get rid of it any way we want to.
ROBERT KENNEDY the worst administration on the environment in our history.
ROBERT KENNEDY It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.
ROBERT KENNEDY President Kennedy has named two Negroes to District Judgeships and appointed Thurgood Marshall to th...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the cases that come before the Department of Justice involving a wide range of unlawful activitie...
ROBERT KENNEDY I like to be involved in politics. I like to be involved in government. I've been in politics al...
ROBERT KENNEDY It certainly should not surprise us that a young person without any real stake in a legitimate occup...
ROBERT KENNEDY I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
JOHN F. KENNEDY I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether the...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disp...
JOHN F. KENNEDY America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
JOHN F. KENNEDY In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New Yor...
JOHN F. KENNEDY My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
JOHN F. KENNEDY I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planet...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote mo...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
JOHN F. KENNEDY The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
JOHN F. KENNEDY We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have th...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been pas...
JOHN F. KENNEDY For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We a...
JOHN F. KENNEDY History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I'm an idealist without illusions.
JOHN F. KENNEDY We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
JOHN F. KENNEDY We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The pay is good and I can walk to work.
JOHN F. KENNEDY There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capita...
JOHN F. KENNEDY In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending fre...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
JOHN F. KENNEDY When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad a...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for Preside...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public lif...
JOHN F. KENNEDY If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he mus...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the Un...
JOHN F. KENNEDY We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make...
JOHN F. KENNEDY There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some m...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.
JOHN F. KENNEDY A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a natio...
JOHN F. KENNEDY We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknow...
JOHN F. KENNEDY War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The human mind is our fundamental resource.
JOHN F. KENNEDY For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their ch...
JOHN F. KENNEDY When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents dan...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
JOHN F. KENNEDY We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon an...
JOHN F. KENNEDY