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Quotes from John Fitzgerald Kennedy

It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
El éxito tiene muchos padres, pero el fracaso es huérfano.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The business of the government is the business of the people.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Only three things are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since we can do nothing with the first two, we must do what we can with the third.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human life
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
One man can make a difference and everyone should try
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
~ John Fitzgerald 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.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for man's allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy