There is a beauty and clarity that comes from simplicity that we sometimes do not appreciate in our thirst for intricate solutions.


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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
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all c...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what i...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
A child miseducated is a child lost.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is 'no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. ...
JOHN F. KELLY
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the fu...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the j...
WALTER F. ULMER
We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.
WALTER F. ULMER
In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and th...
WALTER F. MONDALE
Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to televisio...
WALTER F. MONDALE