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The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
Written by John F. Kennedy
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
Written by John F. Kennedy
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 - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
Written by John F. Kennedy
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
Written by John F. Kennedy
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Written by John F. Kennedy
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.
Written by John F. Kennedy
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.
Written by John F. Kennedy
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
Written by John F. Kennedy
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
Written by John F. Kennedy
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.
Written by John F. Kennedy
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
Written by John F. Kennedy
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Written by John F. Kennedy
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
Written by John F. Kennedy
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
Written by John F. Kennedy
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
Written by John F. Kennedy
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
Written by John F. Kennedy
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.
Written by John F. Kennedy
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
Written by John F. Kennedy
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
Written by John F. Kennedy
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
Written by John F. Kennedy
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Written by John F. Kennedy
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Written by John F. Kennedy
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
Written by John F. Kennedy
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
Written by John F. Kennedy
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
Written by John F. Kennedy
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Written by John F. Kennedy
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Written by John F. Kennedy
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 to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Written by John F. Kennedy
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
Written by John F. Kennedy
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 - I welcome it.
Written by John F. Kennedy

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